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Maintenance and upgrades at Brundage may affect the signal in McCall and surrounding areas. Work should be completed by the end of Thursday.

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.

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