{"id":310694,"date":"2025-11-03T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/keep-america-flying-us-senate-bill-pay-aviation-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:13:45","slug":"keep-america-flying-senate-pushes-bill-to-pay-aviation-workers-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=310694","title":{"rendered":"Keep America Flying: Senate Pushes Bill To Pay Aviation Workers During Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new United States<\/a><\/span> Senate bill called the Keep America Flying Act of 2026 wants to ensure essential air traffic control<\/a><\/span> (ATC), FAA and TSA employees continue to receive paychecks during the ongoing government shutdown, which is now in its fifth week. Tens of thousands of critical aviation staff have been required to work without pay since the shutdown began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aviation employees faced their first empty paycheck earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,396,475,420,643,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-faa","category-tsa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t