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November 8, 2025 12 mins
  • Government Shutdown & Air Travel Disruption

    • The shutdown is blamed for causing flight cancellations, long lines, and increased safety risks in air travel.
    • Air traffic controllers are described as overworked and stressed, leading to more ground incursions and pilot complaints.
    • The Transportation Secretary (Sean Duffy) discusses a phased reduction in flights (starting with 4%, then additional 2% increments) to reduce pressure and risk in the system.
  • Partisan Blame

    • The narrative strongly criticizes Democrats, accusing them of:
      • Deliberately prolonging the shutdown.
      • Rejecting a Republican bill to pay essential workers.
      • Using the shutdown as a political weapon to hurt the public and blame Donald Trump.
    • Republicans are portrayed as trying to resolve the crisis and protect public safety.
  • Filibuster Debate

    • Senator Tommy Tuberville supports eliminating the filibuster to push legislation through, arguing that Democrats are emboldened by recent election wins.
    • Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, is quoted as supporting filibuster reform but also criticizing his own party for prioritizing politics over national interest.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We have a shutdown, as you probably know, because the
Democrats have gone they're crazy, but they don't care if
they're hurt the country. But we've approved it fourteen times.
We've approved a opening up fourteen times, and they keep
rejecting it and they want to have a lot of
bad things happen, bad things for our country. We're not
going to give one point five trillion dollars to people

(00:22):
that came into a country illegally. We're not going to
do it to people came from prisons, they came from
mental institutions and drug dealers, and they want to give
them medical care.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and
we've got one big bombshell story for you coming out
of the White House, and that is this. So the
government shut down is what everyone's talking about. This is
there's literally chaos in the air as flights are being
canceled now at record numbers. So where are we at
this moment. I have all the details for you you're

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Speaker 2 (02:56):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
If you're flying, Democrats are playing with your safety. They
know that they're playing with your safety, and they're wanting
it to hurt. They're wanting you to miss flights, they're
wanting you to stand in long lines, and they want
you to blame Donald Trump. But what they're not talking
about is how unsafe the skies have become because of
the pressure they've deliberately chosen to put on the system.

(03:20):
I also don't want to be clear about something. Republicans
had a clean bill to pay government essential workers, the
workers that are forced to come in even if they're
not getting a paycheck. That includes air traffic controllers and
what do the Democrats do? They said, no, that is
how you know that this is being done deliberately. I

(03:43):
want you to listen to more of what the Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy had to say when he was sitting
down on Friday at a bright Bart conference. Take a listen.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
There's more incursions on the ground. And then we've had
more complaints from pilots that have said, well, the controller
is less responsive to me, or controllers seem to be
more stressed. So we looked at that data and that
numbers are going in the wrong direction. This is a
really long answer, but I want to expect please do
the numbers are going in the wrong direction, and so

(04:13):
then what what is our response to that? And the
response is to take pressure out of the system and
through the safety team. We've talked about lowering the number
of flights and so we were going to do ten
percent right away. The safety team said that could be
even more disruptive. We should we should actually phase this

(04:33):
in to which we've done that. Today is the first
day four percent reduction, four days later another two percent,
two days after that two percent and then you know
two percent on and what I'm hoping to do is
again take the pressure and more risk out of the system.
We always try to manage the risk. Nothing is ever

(04:53):
fully safe. A car is not safe, walking down the
streets not full I mean, there's risk and everything we do.
I'm trying to minimize the risk through this government shutdown
and bring us to a matrix that matches what we
had before the shutdown. And I've had some complaints from Democrats.
They've said, well, we want to see the data, and
why are you looking at data? And this is political.

(05:15):
This has not been political. We have worked over time
to make sure that we minimize the impact on the
American people. We're trying to help the American people. And
when I start to get attacked by Democrats, that also
gets frustrating because there's a very easy solution to the
problem that they put directly on my lap, which is
open the day of government. Vote to open the government.

(05:36):
So those who snipe at me for having to take
really unique action, they put that on my on my plate,
so open it up. And by the way, I did
remember the last some of the last shutdowns I was.
I was part of those. We stayed here for a month.
I gained ten pounds, I think cause I ate pizza
and the junkiest food. But you sit here every weekend,

(05:58):
every day while the gun shut down and your family's upset,
your kids are annoyed. That people would go home doing
a shutdown when the American people are suffering is just
flat out wrong. Everyone should be here, everyone should be working.
No one should go home because, by the way I
saw today I was at DCA, I'm not I'm let
you ask me questions. Sure, yeah, there's people going to funerals.

(06:21):
There's people who are trying to get home. They can't
get home while Senator's going home. Keep them here, and
especially the senators who voted no to open the government up.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Maybe we could put the senators who keep voting to
shut the government down on the no fly list.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
That would be a great well played.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
You listen to the games they're being played, and he's
absolutely right. In a government shut down. When he was
in Washington, d C. Serving you stayed in town. The
families were frustrated because they weren't coming home. The constituents
weren't seeing their congressmen in their district or the senators
in their state. But what are we watching this time?

(06:56):
All of these people are going home. I would argue
that there's no way this go shutdown would be this
long if they forced the Congressmen and the Senators to
stay in town. So if this is what is happening
and what we're witnessing right now, it's probably gonna continue.
Democrats feel like they're holding America hostage, and they feel

(07:18):
like that is a good thing. They also believe that
this is actually working to their advantage, especially after the
big winds they said they got on Tuesday in hardcore
liberal states. So here we are and a full government shutdown,
the longest one in history. And what are Democrats saying?

(07:39):
They're just simply saying, We're going to keep doing it.
Why in essence, why not? We love that this is
happening right now. We love that this is where we are,
and we love that you are being held hostage now.
Tommy Tumerbilt Center from Alabama. He said this even about

(08:00):
the issue of the filibuster earlier on Fox.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Well, in the last week or so, Martha, the Democrats
have snuck around behind the scenes and worked with our
leadership team, knowing that they want to get out of
this themselves, not all of them, but a few of
them and hopefully it would be enough to open up.
But I think they really feel in Bolden that they
won a couple of blue state elections this past Tuesday,
and I don't know whether the deal is still on

(08:26):
the table. You know, it's about three appropriation bills that
we'd put in the CR, put a date in there,
get it done, voted in, and possibly kick the can
down the road to January. Here's a problem with Marsha.
These people feel empowered on the Democratic side. They can't
control President Trump, but they think they can control the
United States Senate. And that's the reason. As President Trump
had us in the White House there stay for breakfast,

(08:48):
he said, if you don't bust a filibuster, we won't
get anything else done. There's going to be more closures.
So we got to make a decision on our side.
I'm all for going to fifty one.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Now.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
I was totally against it until I saw, really hoigh
this place works. And I've been up here five years
and there's not gonna be anything done if we don't
do something about this filibuster. Pass it up and let's
go and just kick the Democrats to the side and
get something done. For the American people they are suffering.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Now you hear that from Tommy Tubverville. There is always
a cause and effect when Democrats get back in control,
and they will at some point in my lifetime, maybe
multiple times in my lifetime, they will then kick the
Republicans the corner and go full blown communists, like we're
witnessing in New York City. Even Democrats are getting in

(09:35):
on this. John Fetterman speaking to reporters about the same issue,
and here's what he said.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Some of your Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the philibuster
to force the government to reopen.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
What do you think, of course, of course, carve it
out for that. Absolutely, we ran on that. We ran
on killing the philibuster, and now we love it. You know,
it's like, carve it out so we can move on.
And I support it because it makes it's more difficult
to shut the government down in the future. And that's
where it's entirely appropriate. And I don't want to hear

(10:06):
any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster. We all
ran on it. I ran on that in mind.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
So there is again Fetterman, we ran on killing the
philibuster and now we love it, carve it out so
we can move on. I support it because it makes
it more difficult to shut the government down in the future,
and that's where it's entirely appropriate. I don't want to
hear any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster. John
Fetterman also calling out his own party, saying, it's very

(10:35):
clear that the Democrats are holding the American people hostage.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
It's like, that's why shutting the government is really what
the Democratic Party wants to do. And I follow country
than party, and it's the wrong thing for the country
in a period of chaos. I refuse to vote to
shut our government down. I absolutely would love to have

(11:00):
I I would love to have a conversation about extending
the tax credits for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would remind
everybody too, this was designed by the Democratic Party to
expire at the end of the year. This is not
something taken from by by the Republicans. That's they were
designed to expire. Now, let's have a conversation to extend

(11:21):
it and not shut our government down, and let's continue
to help has already agreed to that, well, I mean,
you know, that. Well, for me, I do believe, I
do believe Leader Thun is an honorable man, and I
do believe you. Well, you're not gonna lie. I mean,
you can't guarantee any outcome. But what I'm what I'm
saying it that's talking about what's wrong for the country.

(11:44):
I can't vote for a thing. I can't vote to
shutting our government down.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
You wonder where the other statesmen are. John Feterin been
calling out his own party. Democrats choose party over country.
I follow country then party, and it's the wrong thing
for the country in a period of chaos, saying I
refuse to vote to shut our government down. You wonder
when this will actually stop the insanity. It's pretty clear

(12:10):
now Democrats believe they have enough leverage to keep moving
forward with a shutdown. They want it to hurt, and
they're holding the American people hostage and they're proud of it,
including putting your safety at risks in the skies.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
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