Henry Epp

In Kansas City, for example, the local World Cup host committee is renting 200 buses to create new temporary routes all over the region.

Eric Bunch is a city council member in Kansas City.

He hopes the extra World Cup service could influence local transit policy after the tournament ends.

Ones to serve local commuters, not just visiting soccer fans.

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Nearly 50,000 TSA workers missed a paycheck last week, and if Congress doesn't act, they could miss another one next Friday.

That's led a few hundred TSA agents to quit, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC this week that about 10 percent of TSA officers are calling out of work on average.

Duffy said that's about five times the usual call-out rate.

And he said the situation at airports could get a lot worse next week if officers miss their next paycheck.

Meanwhile, Congress is scheduled to go on recess at the end of next week.

The union representing TSA workers urged lawmakers not to leave town until they agree on funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Parts of DHS, including the TSA, have lacked funding since mid-February.

That's after congressional Democrats demanded reforms to federal immigration enforcement following the fatal shootings of Rene Good and Alex Preddy by federal officers in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Republicans and Democrats have so far not been able to reach an agreement on those reforms.

Thousands of FEMA, Coast Guard, and Border Patrol employees are also missing paychecks.

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So sales maybe unsurprisingly really fell off once there was no longer this incentive for consumers.

Monthly EV sales fell by nearly 50% in October from September, and they've sort of stayed at that level in November.

This is according to Cox Automotive.