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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The hot We're still shut down five twenty per time.
You're in Houston's Warning News. Congressman Troy Nails joins us
up bright and early on this election day. Congressman, welcome
to the show. What's this? I hear that CNN canceled
in appearance with you because they didn't want to find
out the truth about the government shutdown?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jammy, Thanks for having me. Yeah, they did. They called
they said, who knows about air traffic control? Who knows
about our aviation industry better than the chairman of the subcommittee,
which is I. And so I said, sure, I've had
no problem. Go talk to Wolf Blitzer a little bit
about ATC air traffic controllers, the shortages we have and
how this shutdown is affecting them and really all the
(00:37):
other federal employees in you know, hour before the interview,
they canceled it because I believe they knew that I
was going to go in there and say, hey, listen,
we've been working bipartisan with with our Democrats with this
ATC modernization, and everybody's coming together to make sure that
(00:57):
we can fly the friendlies guys and everybody can feel safe.
So we're doing it on the House side, but the Democrats,
specifically Chuck Schumer, he doesn't care about air traffic control,
he doesn't care about the safety of our traveling public,
and he certainly doesn't care about the three to four
to five hour wait times right now you're seeing at
Bush and other airports across the country. Because Chuck Schumer
(01:19):
hates Trump so much, the American people are suffering and
he doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I saw the president of the Air Traffic Controllers Association
yesterday talking about the shortage that continues. That what really
exacerbates the problem here is not only that you have
people who are calling out sick because of the fact
that they're not getting paid right now, but you've but
they are about four hundred air traffic controllers short of
where they were the last time we went through something
(01:46):
like this.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, we're Jimmy, we're about twenty five hundred air traffic
controllers short. We're about twenty five hundred short, and we're
trying to address that issue in Congress. You've got one
training facility which is in Oklahoma City. But we're doing
the best to try to get more young people and
others involved in that career path. But it's tough. Why
(02:09):
would you want to do it. It's very stressful. Yeah,
we're going to pay you a little bit more. We're
giving them, you know, a bump in their salaries and stuff.
But it's about the quality of life issues. They're working
six days a week, ten hour days. It's a tough deal.
But yes, that that union wrote a letter on the
thirty first and said, hey, listen, we need to get
(02:30):
the government to vote and open up the government with
this clean cr But obviously Chuck Schumer is not listening.
He's not listening. Now we'll find out this morning. I
think the Senate is going to vote again, possibly the
fifteenth time now, where you could see the Democrats voting
to keep the government shut down, Republicans are doing the opposite.
We're voting to open up the government, but the Democrats
(02:51):
are shutting down. The most disturbing thing, Jimmy, is you'll
see these stupid polls out there, these polls that will
say forty percent of Americans believe the Republicans are responsible
for this shutdown. Where are they getting their information from
these forty percent of the American people.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, from the from the left, from watching MSNBC, from
watching CNN, from watching you know from watching these news
organizations that either won't talk about it or are just
running the party line. That's that's where they get that
there from from the necho chambers where they're getting it.
Let me let me ask you quickly too, before we
let you go here, a Congressman, about what you think
(03:31):
is likely to happen with this government shutdown. I've heard
a lot of people speculate that today being election day,
once we get past today, the Democrats are just trying
to leverage this for the best results they could get
on election day, and once the election is over and
done with, then they'll go ahead and reopen the government.
Your thoughts on that, well.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Some have said that I think it'll be interesting in
the mayoral race in New York City today, the obviously
the Virginia governor race, lieutenant governor, attorney general. So we'll see.
But understand those those are some blue cities and some
blue states. I don't believe the Republicans are going to
be are going to be very dissatisfied with those results
this evening, because I think they'll go to the Socialist
(04:11):
UF there in New York City and some other nut jobs.
But I tell you, they just want to blame Donald
Trump for this. So what you're going to see is
when the election is lost and the Democrats win, of
course they're going to blame Trump and his policies on this,
and they're going to say the country is now sick
and tired of Trump and his policies, and they're going
to try to say that the country is now moving
further to the left and they want Democrats back at chart.
(04:34):
I believe the only way the government reopens, it's going
to require two or three or four more reasonable Democrats
to buck chuck. They're going to have to buck chuck
and open up the government. Congress, the House. We will
go back up. Most likely, I believe it will be
the middle of the month, probably November, the week of
November seventeenth, because we're going to have to vote on
(04:55):
another CR because it expires on November twenty first. That's
what we passed to November twenty first. So I think
we'll get back up during a couple of weeks. Unfortunately,
it'll be still two more weeks and we'll pass a
new CR. How long that new one will continue, maybe
the end of the year, maybe going into the new year,
but I don't believe we get back up there til
the middle of the month, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All right, well, thank you sir, appreciate your time as always,
thanks for getting up so early. Congressman Troy Nails
The hot We're still shut down five twenty per time.
You're in Houston's Warning News. Congressman Troy Nails joins us
up bright and early on this election day. Congressman, welcome
to the show. What's this? I hear that CNN canceled
in appearance with you because they didn't want to find
out the truth about the government shutdown?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Jammy, Thanks for having me. Yeah, they did. They called
they said, who knows about air traffic control? Who knows
about our aviation industry better than the chairman of the subcommittee,
which is I. And so I said, sure, I've had
no problem. Go talk to Wolf Blitzer a little bit
about ATC air traffic controllers, the shortages we have and
how this shutdown is affecting them and really all the
(00:37):
other federal employees in you know, hour before the interview,
they canceled it because I believe they knew that I
was going to go in there and say, hey, listen,
we've been working bipartisan with with our Democrats with this
ATC modernization, and everybody's coming together to make sure that
(00:57):
we can fly the friendlies guys and everybody can feel safe.
So we're doing it on the House side, but the Democrats,
specifically Chuck Schumer, he doesn't care about air traffic control,
he doesn't care about the safety of our traveling public,
and he certainly doesn't care about the three to four
to five hour wait times right now you're seeing at
Bush and other airports across the country. Because Chuck Schumer
(01:19):
hates Trump so much, the American people are suffering and
he doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I saw the president of the Air Traffic Controllers Association
yesterday talking about the shortage that continues. That what really
exacerbates the problem here is not only that you have
people who are calling out sick because of the fact
that they're not getting paid right now, but you've but
they are about four hundred air traffic controllers short of
where they were the last time we went through something
(01:46):
like this.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, we're Jimmy, we're about twenty five hundred air traffic
controllers short. We're about twenty five hundred short, and we're
trying to address that issue in Congress. You've got one
training facility which is in Oklahoma City. But we're doing
the best to try to get more young people and
others involved in that career path. But it's tough. Why
(02:09):
would you want to do it. It's very stressful. Yeah,
we're going to pay you a little bit more. We're
giving them, you know, a bump in their salaries and stuff.
But it's about the quality of life issues. They're working
six days a week, ten hour days. It's a tough deal.
But yes, that that union wrote a letter on the
thirty first and said, hey, listen, we need to get
(02:30):
the government to vote and open up the government with
this clean cr But obviously Chuck Schumer is not listening.
He's not listening. Now we'll find out this morning. I
think the Senate is going to vote again, possibly the
fifteenth time now, where you could see the Democrats voting
to keep the government shut down, Republicans are doing the opposite.
We're voting to open up the government, but the Democrats
(02:51):
are shutting down. The most disturbing thing, Jimmy, is you'll
see these stupid polls out there, these polls that will
say forty percent of Americans believe the Republicans are responsible
for this shutdown. Where are they getting their information from
these forty percent of the American people.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, from the from the left, from watching MSNBC, from
watching CNN, from watching you know from watching these news
organizations that either won't talk about it or are just
running the party line. That's that's where they get that
there from from the necho chambers where they're getting it.
Let me let me ask you quickly too, before we
let you go here, a Congressman, about what you think
(03:31):
is likely to happen with this government shutdown. I've heard
a lot of people speculate that today being election day,
once we get past today, the Democrats are just trying
to leverage this for the best results they could get
on election day, and once the election is over and
done with, then they'll go ahead and reopen the government.
Your thoughts on that, well.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Some have said that I think it'll be interesting in
the mayoral race in New York City today, the obviously
the Virginia governor race, lieutenant governor, attorney general. So we'll see.
But understand those those are some blue cities and some
blue states. I don't believe the Republicans are going to
be are going to be very dissatisfied with those results
this evening, because I think they'll go to the Socialist
(04:11):
UF there in New York City and some other nut jobs.
But I tell you, they just want to blame Donald
Trump for this. So what you're going to see is
when the election is lost and the Democrats win, of
course they're going to blame Trump and his policies on this,
and they're going to say the country is now sick
and tired of Trump and his policies, and they're going
to try to say that the country is now moving
further to the left and they want Democrats back at chart.
(04:34):
I believe the only way the government reopens, it's going
to require two or three or four more reasonable Democrats
to buck chuck. They're going to have to buck chuck
and open up the government. Congress, the House. We will
go back up. Most likely, I believe it will be
the middle of the month, probably November, the week of
November seventeenth, because we're going to have to vote on
(04:55):
another CR because it expires on November twenty first. That's
what we passed to November twenty first. So I think
we'll get back up during a couple of weeks. Unfortunately,
it'll be still two more weeks and we'll pass a
new CR. How long that new one will continue, maybe
the end of the year, maybe going into the new year,
but I don't believe we get back up there til
the middle of the month, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
All right, well, thank you sir, appreciate your time as always,
thanks for getting up so early. Congressman Troy Nails
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