Neal Freiman

And observers looking at this from Democrats or Republicans to the airline industry, to the travel industry are we're looking at the TSA decision, especially because it came down at such a last minute and didn't give anybody time to prepare and saying this.

This makes no sense.

And once again, the threat, the travel industry feels like, yes, it is a political football.

Anytime there is a government shutdown, it feels like.

TSA agents who we should mention are not being paid right now.

They're they're expected to get their first paycheck a week from Friday or miss their first paycheck a week from Friday.

They're not being paid.

So the travel industry is sort of complaining and saying, why are we always on the front lines of these political wranglings?

And especially when you do something like threaten to shut down PreCheck and send airports back into chaos.

You know, they are they're pretty tired of it.

Well, maybe we didn't teach you anything in the last story, but in this story, maybe you've learned that the government is partially shut down because I don't think a lot of people know that at least DHS is not being funded.

It's not very clear when the two sides are very far apart on this ICE spending issue.

And what may happen ultimately is that

tsa workers whether pre-check is open or not will start calling out of work like they have done during the last couple of shutdowns that's led to a faster resolution and the travel industry is saying please can we resolve this as fast as possible because the shutdown last fall which was the longest in history caused losses of 6.1 billion dollars across the travel industry and

and related sectors.

So they are saying, Congress, get your butt back to D.C., which might be a little difficult today, but eventually do that and figure out a compromise so we can start paying our workers again.

Welcome to Winners of the Weekend, the segment where we pick two things that watched Miracle and got really fired up.

I won the pre-show pillow fight, so I get to go first.

And my winner is the Olympics.

After more than a decade of dwindling relevance, the global sports extravaganza has gotten its mojo back after an epic two weeks in northern Italy, which for a brief moment brought the world and our country together during a tumultuous time.