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The UFC fight President Donald Trump is hosting at the White House has caused no shortage of controversy and chaos, and on Thursday, it added a new headache to the affair: travel disruption, specifically for a bipartisan congressional delegation.<\/p>\n

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According to reporting from Politico<\/u> on Friday morning, \u201cA delegation of prominent Republicans and Democrats from Michigan and the Midwest were delayed for more than an hour on a Delta flight from Washington to Detroit.\u201d These included Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bob Latta (R-OH), and Shri Thanedar (D-MI). <\/p>\n

The reason the pilot gave for the delay: no flights were being allowed to depart from the DC airport due to rehearsals for an airshow linked to the upcoming UFC fight. When asked about the situation, a White House spokesperson told Politico, \u201cThere were planned, temporary airspace holds put in place while crews performed a rehearsal in relation to Sunday\u2019s historic UFC Freedom 250 event.\u201d <\/p>\n

The pilot told the passengers that if they wanted to register a complaint, they should call their congressperson. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to hold a UFC fight on the South Lawn to mark America\u2019s 250th and his 80th birthdays has inspired wide-ranging disruption and criticism. Extensive road closures in the D.C. region surrounding the White House are expected to cause \u201ctraffic mayhem<\/u>\u201d over the weekend, while Secret Service agents face a \u201csummer of stress<\/u>\u201d as what one official described as a \u201cviolent Easter Egg Roll\u201d complicates the agency\u2019s already packed schedule. <\/p>\n

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While Trump and UFC officials have assured the public that the fighting organization would cover the costs, the event has required immense governmental resources. Not only has it so far cost at least $60 million<\/u>, requiring engagement with seven agencies and hundreds of workers on a daily basis, but construction of the fighting ring has destroyed the White House grounds. Trump has suggested that he will \u201cnever take it down<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event has proven wildly unpopular with Americans. As the latest polls<\/u> show, just 16 percent of voters think it\u2019s \u201cappropriate\u201d for Trump to host the fight at the White House. On Saturday, a lawsuit<\/u> was filed that seeks to end the event, arguing, “This is fundamentally a private, commercial, corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments for private gain.\u201d In response to the lawsuit, DOJ lawyers declared that no one was holding the plaintiffs in a \u201cjiu jitsu lock<\/u>\u201d forcing them to watch the fight, and that its preparation had taken too much time and money to stop it now.<\/p>\n

Even many mixed martial arts fans are bothered by the fight. \u201cA bunch of the core fanbase is struggling right now,\u201d said Kyle Green<\/u>, a sociologist who focuses on the intersection of sports and politics. \u201cAnd the central question we\u2019re asking them is, what does this do to your fandom? For some of them, they\u2019re like, \u2018I can\u2019t watch this anymore.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

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