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How the Government Shutdown Could Derail the Super Bowl

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If the government shutdown drags on for another 17 days, the Super Bowl could be affected by airport disruptions.
Two weeks from Sunday, soul legend Gladys Knight will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in front of a crowd of 75,000 fans in her hometown of Atlanta. A football game will follow.
But with just 17 days remaining until Super Bowl LIII kicks off at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, some state and local officials in Georgia are growing increasingly worried that the partial government shutdown will derail an event the city has been planning for years.
The primary concern is Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the hoards of people that will be moving through it, and the possibility that TSA agents will be working without pay. “Right now, we have about 70,000 to 80,000 people who go through Hartsfield-Jackson each and every day,” Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said over the weekend. “That number will swell. The day after the Super Bowl, which we refer to as ‘Mass Exodus Monday,’ we will have 110,000 going through the airport.”
Monday provided a preview of the trouble that awaits if the government is still shut down on February 3.

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