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.
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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.