Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.
“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.
“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”
Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.
No, the shutdown is because Congress didn’t pass a budget to allocate new federal funding. Which means that government agencies don’t have any money to pay employees. For most, this means they’re furloughed (essentially mandatory unpaid leave), because being forced to work without pay is also called slavery. Some positions, though (like ATC), are considered too vital to shut down so they do it anyway, and in the past provisions would be included in the budgets to give backpay as appropriate. There’s some worry that El Taco isn’t going to do that this time around, though.
But iys more complicated than that. Some functions, like military , are funded for multiple years, so they’re getting paid. And Republicans passed funding for gestapo, so they’re getting paid.
And a few things like SNAP (food stamps) have contingency funding because they’re too critical to interrupt …. Yet it’s still a victim of political games
I think I read na article that said the Pentagon diverted funding to pay wages so I guess they just HD extra money they could spend
So why doesn’t this trigger an election in America?
Because AmericaOS is still running v0.2 and has no provisions for federal level elections outside the normal election cycle.
We have no concept here of triggering an election. All of our Federal elections are for set terms, no matter what. We don’t have any notion of a “no confidence” vote in government. If we did, I bet it would fail every time.
Pretty much the entire US Constitution is built around the ideas of people acting in good faith. And, even with just the first thirteen states, that wasn’t a horrible idea. Understand that even the East Coast of the US still stretches across a good chunk of the modern day EU and the idea that you were electing a representative to travel for a few days to vote for you made more sense. Similarly, if they were a complete a-hole they would be shunned by all their rich white friends because that was poor decorum.
So the idea that you would have elected officials dismantling the government with no recourse was quite gauche.
Whereas many (most?) modern day parliamentary systems cover a much smaller amount of land and many of them actually date back to the mid 1900s where cars, planes, and phones were very much a thing and rapid un-fucking (or at least differently-fucking…) of the government was an option.
All of which goes to say that maybe we should spend less time glazing rich white slavers and more time modernizing the government
Excellent question.
It’s even worse than that. They passed a budget, but need a separate vote for actually authorizing the money to be spent.
Congress set it up this way, on purpose, so that small-government types would have an additional opportunity to negotiate shit that’s already been negotiated.
The house passed a budget that fucks over health care. The Senate has not
No, the budget was passed as the One Big Beautiful Bill. It was passed without Democratic support because the Senate used the Budget Reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster. But now, the Senate cannot again use Reconciliation to pass any of the two competing appropriations bills. (And as far as I know, neither bill actually performs the appropriations from the budget, and just keeps current spending levels in place, with the Democratic bill adding the healthcare fix.)
The OBBB includes provisions that fucks over healthcare. The House appropriations bill kept those things in place. The Senate rejected it, then the House stopped working.
The OB3 was not a budget. It was a series of laws/proclamations that would be funded in the future.
The fiscal year ended last month. Hence the need for a budget for the current fiscal year.
Please educate yourself more rather than spew propaganda that favors trump and the chuds.
wrong
The OBBB was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which allows it to be passed in the Senate without a cloture vote, but also limits it to strictly budgetary items. It is a budget bill, full stop. It has to be I order to be passed through the Reconciliation process.
The current shutdown has nothing to do with the budgetary process, it has to do with a lack of appropriations.
I don’t block many people, but I am blocking you, because you are a troll.
For the benefit of people who aren’t plugging their ears and screaming that daddy trump already fixed the economy:
I recommend actually reading through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act as it is a fairly unbiased coverage.
But, in a nutshell: the OB3 is not a budget. It is a list of proclamations. Some of those have budgetary implications but they are only a subset of what the government is responsible for. The chuds not understanding what the government does? Just as crazy now as all the other fucking times it happens.
An actual congressional budget gets shockingly in depth. It is just that nobody, congress included, gives a shit about the individual line items.
As a metaphor that The Internet will lose its mind over because metaphors are complicated: The OB3 is like saying you are going to set aside money next year to go on a vacation… where you beat up trans people. It is a step towards a budget but it doesn’t say where that money comes from or what else you’ll do next year. That is the ACTUAL budget that needs to pass by the start of the fiscal year.