NEW: President Biden calls on lawmakers to quickly approve a labor deal that aims to prevent a freight strike weeks before the holiday season.
that would avert what he called a “potentially crippling national rail shutdown” as early as Dec. 9.
Biden urged lawmakers to adopt the tentative deal between railroad workers and operators —"without any modifications or delay" — and warned that the economic repercussions of a shutdown of the country's freight rails would"devastate" the economy. “Congress should get this bill to my desk well in advance of December 9th so we can avoid disruption,” he added.
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