Democrats Vote Against Ending Shutdown as Air Traffic Controllers Miss Pay Day
Today is the first day air traffic controllers missed their paycheck.
Oh, look. The Democrats rejected the continuing resolution for the 13th time.
The same three Democrat senators voted with the Republicans: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), John Fetterman (PA), and Angus King (ME).
The vote came after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that today is the first day air traffic controllers will miss their paychecks, further complicating the industry.
“I had one controller tell me, ‘my 10-year-old daughter made the traveling volleyball team, and it cost hundreds of dollars. I had to tell her I couldn’t pay the money because I don’t have a check coming in. I have to put food on the table,'” Duffy continued. “It’s tragic. But here’s what’s even worse. Democrats aren’t voting to open up the government.”
“You are safe to fly because these controllers come in, they’re the most amazing professionals. They do their job, they keep you safe. But again, I don’t want them driving DoorDash. I don’t want them going to the food bank. I want them focused on keeping you safe,” Duffy also said.
Duffy later said at a press conference Tuesday, “I think we’re getting to the point of extremism. And it does beg the question for me again, what are the Democrats fighting for?
“Let’s fight for America. Let’s not fight for health care for illegal immigrants, illegal aliens. I think that’s a wrong approach. And listen, I spent almost ten years in Congress. There are political differences. Those political differences are very real. And the way you resolve those differences is not taking hostages. It’s actually opening up the government and having a conversation. What can we work out? What compromises can we make?” Duffy added.
13,000 air traffic controllers won’t get a paycheck today.
But do you know who WILL continue to receive a paycheck? DEMOCRATS in Congress who are shutting down our government to fight for illegal immigrant healthcare! pic.twitter.com/cEQI4RbHwT
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) October 28, 2025
Our air traffic controllers are some of the most amazing professionals I’ve ever met.
Today they received ZERO DOLLARS on their paycheck. One controller told me he couldn't pay for his kid’s volleyball team because he has to put food on the table. pic.twitter.com/IfnNtrCpYj
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) October 28, 2025
Also, people won’t get their SNAP benefits on November 1 due to the shutdown.
Politico reported that more and more Democrats dropped hints that they would accept a piece of legislation from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to fund SNAP.
I mean…why can’t we just do these single funding bills? Why is that so hard!?
Oh wait. When you have a big bill you can shove nonsense into it and people won’t notice.
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When flights start getting cancelled in their districts and their white collar constituents start getting inconvenienced, it will blow up on them.
They are still required to work. Its just that they won’t get paid again until after Democrats stop holding the country hostage.
In the meantime, we’ve already had delays at airports (including LA) due to staffing shortages of Air Traffic Controllers.
This is because some of them are staging a “sick out” – to help Senate D’s “win” the shutdown.
You know they’re Democrats because they can’t think more than zero moves ahead.
Oh the democrats are willing to fund snap
THEIR people, all on welfare!
Not the military, not the air controllers….
Only welfare and illegal aliens
Is it time to nuke them?
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, Thank God I’m not elected to congress with them. (Of course I live in MA so not possible).
Nope no smaller bills aimed at a particular constituency. Either enough d/prog Senators cross to vote for the clean CR to fund Federal govt at levels already agreed to or keep it shut down. Eventually the d/prog will break if the weak sauce GoP in Congress can keep from giving in to sob stories. Don’t reward the d/prog for this tantrum …if the political party of ‘big govt/big spending’ wants to keep the Federal govt shut down …cool. Begin the RIF. ID programs to eliminate. ID Agencies to consolidate. Set the DoGE team loose. Offer the next CR at 99% of FY25 and if the d/prog won’t break then offer it again every week with the amount dropping by 1% per week and a minimum effective period of 90 days from passage.
Better yet move the remaining appropriation bills from committee to the floor of HoR for vote. I believe the current count is only 3/12 appropriation bills for FY26 having had a floor vote. It is ridiculous that the HoR leadership keeps refusing to meet its promises to deliver on getting the 12 separate appropriations bills passed. Mary is absolutely correct that reason they don’t is to stuff a single bill chock full of boondoggle spending. Massie keeps trying to warn and explain exactly how the annual Kabuki budget games are run by DC establishment but gets pilloried for doing so. If your ‘team’ is throwing the game why should you be accused of not wanting to be a team player and sign off on the shenanigans?
Trump can stiffen their spines by telling them don’t bother sending anything other than a clean CR unless they can override his veto
How about a real budget rather than this CR nonsense?
Trump signing pay for the military etc makes sense though – takes the pressure off Republicans and shows that it’s Democrats exclusively that are the reason for the pain.
There is no real pressure on the GoP. The fact is that the d/prog are blocking the clean CR. This CR merely continues funding temporarily at the levels agreed to for FY25. It doesn’t have any policy changes, and additional spending or any reduced spending.
They’ve worked out paying the military once and maybe can do so again at least for lower enlisted troops. The Federal Employee Union, a d/prog ally, has just come out denouncing the d/prog Schumer Shutdown and demanding they pass the clean CR. Again there is no pressure on the GoP to cave to Schumer Shutdown tactics to add $1.5 Trillion in subsidies to the failed Obama care or restore funding already cut in BBB for LGBTQ+ crap in foreign Nations or other nonsense.
For decades, the left has claimed they were for the little guy, when this is in fact how they have always treated the little guy.
Dems like to keep the little on welfare so that the little guy has incentive to vote Dem. Same pattern in big city blue leadership for decades.
Just theoretically. I wonder if it would be possible for an air traffic controller who finds out that a Democrat Senator is on a plane to divert it to say Jamaica in the next few days, or to Haiti anytime?
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I’m not so sure about that 🤔 I think a certain subset of society that’s already prone to rioting will be more likely to riot as their lives revolve around Government provided hand outs AND hating whites of this country. We saw them rioting in the weekend around Tower Hamlets and they have been rioting in support of their brothers in Hamas this year too.
Northerners I think are more proud of who they are and where they come from I mean it literally took a mohamadian to kill some of their children to get them out on the streets!
But for the innocent people on board the same airplane I’d rather they divert it right into the side of a mountain.
That’s a hell of a long-distance diversion.
You’d have to play a really major card.
Whatta ya think — “climate change?” Democrat rules!
I talked to someone in the UK today and told him about the shutdown.
I told him that there were not going to be any snap benefits paid.
He replied, if that happened in UK, there would be riots.
No different here.
Meh. Maybe but I lean towards less of ‘riots’ than sporadic instances of flash mob looting. Some locations more than others and some not at all b/c the negative incentives far outweigh any potential gain to the would be looters.
The airlines pay fees that pay the controllers. Let’s eliminate the government as the middleman and set up a non-profit corporation to do it. Many countries already have private air traffic controllers.
If I were a Democrat congressman, I’d be taking a whole bunch of train right about now.
You mean that really fast one that goes from Modesto to Merced?
The ‘Rats are hoping and praying for some deaths so they and their flying monkeys propaganda organs can blame Trump. Just like the ‘Rats favorite terrorists—Hamas—they will cause death and destruction that the propaganda outlets can exploit.