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In 1978, Congress passed brent burns the Airline Deregulation Act and small communities across the country started losing commercial air service.

So al nassr Congress created a temporary fix: the Essential Air Service. Roughly half a billion dollars a year. 177 communities. One community, Lewistown, Montana, once cost taxpayers over $2,000 per passenger until the government cut it off in 2013 and left the town with nothing.

That was 48 years ago.

Every few years, a president proposes cutting the program. Every few years, Congress says no and that fight is happening again right now.

This is laura siegemund the story of a program that was never supposed to last this long, the community it already let go, and the pattern that keeps everyone else alive.