US air traffic control staffing and flight delays hit for third day, Trump warns of job cuts

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Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying flights for a third straight day at numerous US airports as the government shutdown continues due to an impasse in the Senate for the short-term spending bill for federal agencies.  President Donald Trump said his administration plans to eliminate a number of government programmes as a result of the shutdown.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnlinenews, thestartv, the star, usa, america, government shutdown, donald trump, air traffic control staffing, impasse, deadlock, senate, vote, democratic party, republican party, spending bill

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00:00Here we go..

00:27I'm going to get to it.

00:56I'm here to advocate for the end to the shutdown.

01:02We need to bring this shutdown to a close so that the Federal Aviation Administration

01:06and the committed aviation safety professionals can put this distraction behind us and completely

01:14focus on their vital work.

01:18On this vote, the yeas are 45, the nays are 50, three-fifths of the senators duly chosen

01:23and sworn not having voted.

01:26House and Senate Democrats have consistently made clear that we will sit down with anyone

01:33at any time and at any place, either here at the Capitol or over at the White House,

01:40to reopen the government, to enact a bipartisan spending agreement that actually meets the

01:46needs of the American people, and to address the Republican health care crisis.

01:53Democrats over here are playing games.

01:55We have one plea and one plea alone.

01:57We need a handful of Democrats to stop the madness, reopen the government so that we can get to

02:03these critical debates about the year-end policy decisions with regard to the further reforms

02:09to health care.

02:10Have you identified programs to eliminate under this shutdown?

02:13Oh, sure.

02:14Sure.

02:15Which ones?

02:16We have a lot.

02:17I'm not going to tell you, but we'll be announcing it pretty soon, but we have a lot of things

02:20that we're going to eliminate and permanently eliminate.

02:23You know, one of the things that we have is some advantage, you could say, but because of the

02:29shutdown, which I think they made a big mistake, we're able to take out billions and billions

02:34of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse, and they've handed it, you know, on a silver platter.

02:39How many permanent jobs are you talking about?

02:42Well, I could tell you, I'll be able to tell you that in four or five days, if this keeps

02:45going on.

02:46If this keeps going on, it'll be substantial, and a lot of those jobs will never come back.

02:53But you're going to have a lot closer to a balanced budget, actually.

02:59He is a very strong, very good leader.

03:02He's a nice man, but he can...

03:12He's a nice man, but he's a nice man.

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