After the weekend's furious reaction, the Administration has now said it will not halt travel by permanent residents of the United States, unless they are thought to pose a specific security risk.
Within days of President Donald Trump's first executive order halting travel to the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries, states and organizations filed a flurry of lawsuits to fight the ban.
Some automakers have halted air travel or limited it to essential trips.
At a time when governments across the country have halted nonessential travel by public employees, Richard Lanyon, the executive director of the reclamation district, has attended 14 out-of-town meetings of professional organizations in the last 19 months.
First a banking collapse crippled the economy in 2008, and then a year and a half later, the volcanic eruption at Eyjafjallajokull halted air travel across the Atlantic and in Europe, frustrating millions.
Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat on the House aviation subcommittee, said that she would support an aid package that reimbursed the industry for its losses during a four-day period last week in which the government halted air travel.
Trump has publicly slammed the judges who halted his travel bans, prompting Gorsuch to call the remarks "demoralizing" and "disheartening".
