Air travel hurts everyone, not just senate liberals.

Less than half of the public travel by plane even once a year. Some 15% travel internationally. And your propensity to travel by plane is heavily determined by your wealth/income and your proximity to a major city. This is a problem that is heavily concentrated in the metro-poles.

The higher class politicians don’t even need to suffer TSA losses since private planes don’t even use the TSA.

Even the wealthiest Americans regularly use commercial airline services. Private chartered jets tend to be favored by corporate executives, because they can push off the cost of travel onto the corporate balance sheets. And even then, these private jets tend to function as mini-flying offices accommodating whole teams of people. They’re as beholden to FAA as every other airborne vehicle and the FAA was also suffering from shortfalls.

Lastly, the house still has to fold

Very possible the House GOP “Double Down” Caucus tries to squeeze an extra turd out before this bill goes to Trump. Hell, its possible Trump vetoes the bill because he’s in a nasty mood that day. But at this point, Republicans are operating as a unified caucus while Dems are fracturing. If the GOP does demand another pound of flesh, I question whether Democrats won’t cave still further.

From what I’ve read, none of them are even up for reelection, so it was 100% personal pride that drove them to give in to the traitors.

I’m sure there’s a bunch of money waiting for them on the backend of retirement.