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Air traffic controllers helped end government shutdown in 2019. Could they be in the same position?

A shortage of air traffic controllers may have played a key role in ending the last government shutdown in 2019. Those controllers could be in a powerful position this year as well.

NPR transportation correspondent Joel Rose reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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