Sean Duffy says he does not want air controllers to work as Uber drivers during the stop

US transport secretary Sean Duffy Held a press conference at Newark Airport in New Jersey on Monday to talk about the government’s closure, which is currently in its sixth day. And it was filled with disinformation on the reasons why the government has closed and what it takes to open things.

If the closure continues, air traffic controllers will not get their pay checks next week, but will always have to work, as they are considered essential employees. The workers were promised to recover whenever the government opens again, but we do not know when this could happen because there is no agreement in sight.

And Duffy tries to blame the Democrats, even if the Republicans control both the Chamber and the Senate as well as the Presidency. Duffy claims that Democrats will not vote for the republican bill because they want health care for undocumented immigrants.

“Simply keep the government open and funded, and we have time to continue the conversation. But to be held hostage for health care for illegals, I don’t think it’s logical,” said Duffy.

The assertion that Democrats are fighting for health care for “illegal” is not true, as countless articles have pointed out. In reality, the Democrats want restored funding for Medicaid which was cut by the “Big Beau Bill” of President Trump in July. Approximately 1.4 million legal Immigrants will lose their health care, according to KFF.

Democrats are also trying to restore subsidies to the affordable care law that has been reduced under the bill. Premiums should increase by 100% or more for many of the 24 million Americans who buy ACA coverage, according to KFF. Employers warn that everyone is about to pay much higher insurance premiums next year, with an average increase of approximately 9%, according to the New York Times.

The reality is that the Republicans have reduced the essential services and attempted to dictate the content of bills without any form of compromise with the Democrats, which are necessary to adopt legislation which requires 60 votes in the Senate. Republicans need at least 8 votes to the Democrats in the Senate to reopen the government. And the “Take or Leave” approach does not work for the Republicans.

There is also the question of whether concessions that Democrats could be able to extract in an agreement to reopen the government would be honored, because President Trump unilaterally decided to cut things like Usaid, against the wishes of the congress and the laws established for a long time. Trump has practiced something called the fodder, which is the theory that presidents simply cannot spend money which has been awarded by the Congress. A law was adopted in 1974 to combat excessive use of Richard Nixon restraint, and many members of the Trump regime would have believed that Trump would not need to respect the law.

The money that currently works on the system, in the Ministry of Transport and elsewhere, will dry very soon. Duffy said that funding the essential Air Service, a program dating from the 1970s, which provides federal funding for small regional airports, was going to run out of Thursday, but Dot found money to maintain it until Sunday.

The essential aerial services program has been launched to subsidize non -profitable routes that airlines would not otherwise be served, but there was a controversy during the program over the decades. According to Bloomberg, Trump has rendered the lip service, although the Republicans recently proposed to reduce the essential air service by $ 308 million, according to Bloomberg.

The president of the National Air Traffic Cuellers Association (NATCA), the union which represents the air traffic controllers, stressed that it was not dangerous for the Americans to get on a plane at the moment, even with all the chaos. Nick Daniels appeared on Fox News during the weekend to talk about the closure.

“He is sure to fly,” said Daniels on Sunday. “American men and women who serve as air traffic controllers, they present themselves to work. They will do everything they can. “

During the press conference on Monday, Duffy said there was a slight increase in air traffic controllers calling for patients and explained that he did not want one of them to find second jobs like driving to Uber. The last closure of the government, which occurred in 2019 in Trump’s first term, saw more and more air traffic controllers call the patients while hanging over a people of missed pay checks. This closure lasted 35 days.

Duffy was questioned by journalists about the disturbances with the TSA, although this agency is part of the Ministry of Internal Security and not of the Ministry of Transport. For its part, the ASD has maintained very similar discussion points on the Democrats to blame for this closure.

“From midnight on October 1, the financing of a large part of the federal government will have expired due to the partisan policy of leftist politicians,” Twee TSA last week.

“While the TSA is ready to continue to project around 2.5 million passengers per day, prolonged closure could mean longer waiting times in airports. We are asking for the patience of our passengers during this period,” wrote TSA.

Another complicating factor in the negotiations between the Democrats and the Republicans is the invasion continues by President Trump of American cities with masked men who removing anyone who does not seem white enough, as well as its use of the National Guard. A judge ordered Trump not to use the Oregon National Guard to deploy in Portland, so he called the California National Guard troops to do so anyway. Something similar has happened in Chicago, Trump calling troops from Texas.

It does not seem that there is an end of closure of the government soon, but we do not know what would break the logjam in these unprecedented times. Trump published an AI video of himself last week by throwing a “Trump 2028” hat on the head of Hakeem Jeffries. And another director of the OMB, Russ Vought, like Grim Reaper, coming to Slash Jobs.

All this means that it is difficult to take the Republicans seriously when they warn against the jobs of the vital government in a breathing and joke about the dismissal as many people as others in the next.