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March 17, 2026

Airline CEOs demand Congress restore Homeland Security funding

By ANNE D;NNOCENZIO
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — The CEOs of the nation's top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers including airport security officers during the partial government shutdown.

“Once again, air travel is the political football amid another government shutdown,” the executives wrote in an open letter to Congress that was published Sunday online and in The Washington Post.


 
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