{"id":705,"date":"2018-12-18T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2018-12-18T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:30:06","slug":"government-shutdown-looming-faa-employees-aviation-safety-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown Looming; FAA Employees &#038; Aviation Safety Impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partial federal government shutdown will occur on Friday, December 21 at midnight, if lawmakers can\u2019t agree on funding critical agencies, like the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), before the crush of holiday travel.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Many dedicated federal employees\u2014such as aviation safety inspectors\u2014will be furloughed and many will continue to work, but without a paycheck, just before the holidays. PASS encourages all DOT and FAA employees and their colleagues in other affected agencies, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnetwork.org\/letters\/tell-lawmakers-to-keep-the-government-open-and-approve-the-federal-employee-pay-raise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact their member of Congress NOW<\/a>, and ask them to avert a government shutdown.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/17\/676689450\/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what will happen<\/a> if there is a partial government shutdown as you prepare to visit your loved ones this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A partial federal government shutdown will occur on Friday, December 21 at midnight, if lawmakers can\u2019t agree on funding critical agencies, like the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), before the crush of holiday travel.&nbsp;Many dedicated federal employees\u2014such as aviation safety inspectors\u2014will be furloughed and many will continue to work, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}