Shutdown Length

[Mik]

I like the approach - clean resolution, no blackmail. Say what you wish, Trump's got balls.

[Horace]

My wife is coming back from overseas on Friday, to that very airport. I assume arrivals will be less affected.

It's surprising to me that anybody is not showing up, considering they will get back pay after the shutdown ends. But not anymore. Oh, and now they're presumably fired. I wonder how real this is. Those TSA jobs are choice and competitive.

[Mik]

If I had to be a TSA worker I'd just go back to crime for a living.

[Horace]

According to ChatGPT, I may have overestimated how much those jobs pay and how competitive they are.

[kluurs]

Word is the house won't be back next week - which means 1) we've set a record and 2) someone's got to blink - and it's probably going to be the Dems.

[Mik]

In my view Trump's got the stronger hand. Whatever legislation one wants to pass, it needs to be done on its own merits, not by blackmail.

[Mik]

[89th]

Hahaha made me chuckle

[jon-nyc]

Im sure the shutdown is hard on all the government employees but it’s especially hard for men. They’re foregoing $1 for every 83c the women are foregoing.

[Mik]

Yes. So unfair.

[jon-nyc]

According to Trump the shutdown has already been a victory for the Dems.

[jon-nyc]

Odd though that he thinks he wasn’t on the ballot.

[jon-nyc]

Schumer just did a thing. On the senate floor he offered a compromise. Reopen the government with a temporary extension of the ACA subsidies (which he describes as extending current law). Then create a bipartisan subgroup to negotiate something long term to address health care costs.

[Mik]

Stay the course. The additional subsidies should die. Of course the Trump tax cuts should have too.

[LuFins Dad]

The shutdown will be over by next Friday…

It’s affecting the NFL. Fans that bought tickets for the away games can’t get there, and it’s causing massive disruptions for the media and broadcast crews.

[Horace]

Seems obvious that widespread air travel disruptions are a hard line that politics can not cross.

[Horace]

It also seems likely, if not quite obvious, that Trump is such an outsized figure in all political happenings, that he’ll mostly get blamed for it. regardless of what a more nuanced take might be.

[Mik]

One side wants to open the government. the other side is holding their breath until they get what they want, contrary to what they voted for in establishing an expiration for the additional subsidies.

Coincidentally there was a piece on COVID fraud being prosecuted on Full Measure this morning. One Minnesota group scammed 250 million. We really need to quit paying for pandemic related stuff.

[jon-nyc]

End in sight?

[Mik]

Let us hope.