00:00President, I'm on the page of Frontline Standing Point USA. On the government shutdown, of course,
00:04we're approaching Thanksgiving, we're approaching the holidays. What would travel look like,
00:09you know, if the Democrats don't open the government in time?
00:12So I'm going to let our great Secretary of Transportation answer this question. Look,
00:15it could be a disaster. It really could be. Because at that point, you're talking about
00:19people have missed three paychecks. They've missed four paychecks. How many of them are
00:24not going to show up for work? You take the TSA lines that are already too long, even right now,
00:30and say half of those people don't show up for work, not because they're not hard workers or
00:33good people, but because they've got to find a different job to feed their families. What happens
00:38when the security lines are not an hour long, but they're four hours long? What happens when pilots
00:44start not showing up for work because they're so focused on paying the bills, they can't fly the
00:48plane safely? That's going to lead to massive delays. We want people to be able to get home
00:53for Thanksgiving. We want people to be able to travel for business, to make this entire engine
00:58of commerce work. We want the aviation industry to work. It's not going to work unless the
01:04Democrats reopen the government. These guys are doing heroic things to make it work as
01:09well as it possibly can. But every single person that I talk to, to a word, they are worried
01:14that the delays are going to reach a point where it makes it very, very hard for the American
01:19people to fly. Sean. So to answer your question, our traffic will be snarled, right? It'll be a disaster
01:26in aviation. We're working closely with NATCA, our air traffic controllers union, our technicians
01:31who work to keep the equipment safe and operational. I know Christie's working with TSA. So we are
01:35doing all we can to partner with and talk to our government employees who make this system
01:42run smoothly. But we can only ask so much. And as a guy who had a lot of kids and didn't
01:47make a lot of money early in my life, I know the pressure that these families are under.
01:51I worry about the people who are scanning our bags and making us get through the security
01:55line. I worry they're not getting paychecks. They're starting to get worried about how to
01:58feed their families and how to pay school tuition and everything else. I worry about the pilots
02:03who haven't gotten paid in a long time. I worry about the air traffic controllers who of course
02:06make this entire system extra safe. I worry about them, you know, more worried about their
02:11credit card bill than they should be because they're not getting a paycheck because Democrats
02:15refused to open the government. Now, I understand that a lot of Americans are sick of partisanship
02:19in Washington, D.C. Trust me, I've been here for nine months in this job. I am sick of
02:24partisanship in Washington, D.C. But this is very, very simple. Every partisan dispute,
02:29every policy disagreement, all of these things we can talk about, we can reason through, we
02:34can disagree, we can shake hands and compromise on some of those issues, hopefully. But this
02:39is something that every single American, Democrat or Republican or Independent should be able
02:43to agree on. Open the government. Stop this craziness and open the government. It's causing
02:48way too many problems. And some of the folks behind me are the people who are dealing with the
02:53problems.
03:23things that I think are right about. So you can't have to be able to agree with this.
03:25You can take your hands, please. The people who are dealing with the problems, you can
03:26take your hands. They might be able to agree with that.
03:27And some of the folks behind me are the people who are dealing with the problems. I am
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