Government Shutdown Update - Why Bills To Pay Federal Workers Failed

The government shutdown continues as both parties fail to pass bills that would have paid federal workers, including servicemembers. Ryan explains the latest developments.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday, the Senate shutdown two separate bills that would have
made sure military service members and some are all federal
employees during the ongoing government shutdown were paid. Republicans and
Democrats couldn't agree on each other's proposals, no surprise, keeping
the Senate deadlocked with no deal in sight to reopen
the government. So you had the GOP lead bills sponsored
by Senator Ron Johnson that would have paid federal workers

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still on the job, plus military members and contractors. Three Democrats,
Senators John Fetterman, John Asoff, and Rafael Warnock all voted
in favor of it. Then Republicans blocked a Democratic alternative
that was introduced by Senator Chris van Holland. I told
you he was going to introduce this a few days ago.
That would have covered all federal employees, including those on furlough,

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and it would have stopped the White House from laying
off more workers during the shutdown. So after those bills failed,
the Senate left Washington for the weekend, made no progress
on ending the shutdown. So we had that going on,
and then we had Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy say the
travelers should brace for flight delays and cancelations, with air

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traffic controllers about to miss their first paychecks next week
because of the shutdown, October twenty eighth marks the first
missed payday for controllers, which follows their last checks, which
covered September work already having been reduced. A current controller
told Axios that most employees are likely going to hang

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on through the first missed paycheck, but many aren't going
to make it past the second, which would lead right
into the Thanksgiving holiday. Talk about a big problem, Duffy said,
safety remains a top priority. End quote. If we don't
have staffing levels in a tower or control center, we
will delay or cancel flight. So we've seen some delays

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and cancelations and things like that so far, they pop up,
you know, every day, some days more than others. But
if this continues, you're going to see that happen more
and more. And if that's happening the week of Thanksgiving,
the busiest travel week of the year, there's going to
be all kinds of problems and frustration and blowback. The

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