Caroline Leavitt

Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.

During Thursday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt highlighted that the Thanksgiving holiday is fast approaching, saying the White House fears there will be significant flight delays, disruptions, and cancellations across the country this holiday season if, quote, Democrats continue to shut down the government.

There are about 13,000 air traffic controllers who are considered essential workers and are currently working without pay due to the shutdown.

TSA agents are also having to work without pay.

In response, several pilots associations representing tens of thousands of pilots all issued statements begging lawmakers to end the shutdown ahead of the holidays.

So, Hakeem Jeffries

should stop calling me names.

He should stop trying to fight my boss, President Trump.

And he should go back to doing what he was elected to do, the business of the American people in Congress, and encourage Senate Democrats to open the government.

And I see Hakeem Jeffries saying, House Republicans are out.

They're not even here.

Yeah, because they did their jobs and they passed a clean continuing resolution at the behest of President Trump to keep the government open.

And now Senate Democrats and Chuck Schumer

are blocking that to fight Donald Trump.

And it's despicable.

Hakeem Jeffries is simply lashing out because he knows that I am telling the truth about the modern day Democrat Party.

What I said, and it is a fact, is that the Democrat Party caters more to pro-Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.

I just heard about a tunnel from Russia to Alaska.

Proved that the Democrat Party's main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.

That is who the Democrat Party is catering to, not the Trump administration and not the White House and not the Republican Party, who is standing up for law-abiding Americans, not just across the country, but around the world.