STORY: U.S. vice president warns of aviation "disaster" if gov't shutdown drags well into NovemberDATELINE: Oct. 30, 2025 & FileSHOOTING TIME: Oct. 31, 2025LENGTH: 00:01:51LOCATION: Washington D.C.CATEGORY: POLITICSSHOTLIST:1. various of the White House 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JD VANCE, U.S. Vice President3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SEAN DUFFY, U.S. Secretary of Transportation4. file of U.S. airportsSTORYLINE:U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned Thursday that if the government shutdown drags well into November, air traffic controllers will continue missing paychecks, potentially disrupting the nation's air travel system as the holiday travel season approaches.SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JD VANCE, U.S. Vice President"It could be a disaster. It really could be, because at that point you're talking about people who have missed three paychecks, they've missed four paychecks. What happens when the security lines are not an hour long, but they're four hours long. What happens when pilots start not showing up for work because they're so focused on paying the bills, they can't fly the plane safely? That's going to lead to massive delays. We want people to be able to get home for Thanksgiving. We want people to be able to travel for business, to make this entire engine of commerce work. We want the aviation industry to work."Vance was speaking at the White House on Thursday after a meeting with aviation industry leaders.He blamed Democrats for "trying to take a hostage" and keeping the government closed.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has repeatedly warned of the danger of air traffic controllers missing paychecks, said on Thursday that October has been a relatively slow travel month, "but as we go into November, travel picks up."SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SEAN DUFFY, U.S. Secretary of Transportation"As we go into November, travel picks up as people start to look at going to see their families, kids come home from college, and if you don't have air traffic controllers who are being paid, they may want to stand the job, but they cannot. They're going to have to go take a second job, and you're going to have mass issues through the airspace. People will not be able to go from one place to the other because of the government shutdown, and I hope Democrats don't take it to that point."In a press conference at Philadelphia International Airport on Oct. 24, Duffy noted that the system is already short of 2,000 to 3,000 air traffic controllers and that a plan to increase that number will take a couple of years. Starting this month, some 13,000 air traffic controllers have continued working without pay.According to FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were delayed on Thursday, with over 1,000 cancellations.The federal government shutdown is now in its fifth week and could soon set an all-time record, with little sign of compromise between the Democratic and Republican parties.Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Washington, D.C.(XHTV)