Rick Scott

Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy?

I think the number is going to be substantial.

Again, you look at the trend line, Jake, and it's only gotten worse as we've gone through the shutdown.

We're day 40 now.

And we saw the largest number of outage of controllers was on Halloween, the 31st.

Those numbers were 61.

Yesterday, it was 81.

And the controllers that I've talked to said a lot of them, we can miss one paycheck.

They told me that virtually none of them can miss two paychecks.

And so they're going to be confronted with the idea of, as you mentioned, going to get a side job, a second job to make ends meet, to put food on the table, put gas in the car, to pay their rent.

And a lot of these controllers who are young, Jake, they don't make a lot of money.

They're just getting into the business of being an air traffic controller.

So they make less than $100,000 and they live in a really expensive place.

They're the single income earner and they have a kid or two at home.

It's very challenging.

There have been some talks in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats trying to forge a possible compromise.

Is Democratic unity crumbling on this?

Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this continuing resolution.

And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.

What it does, first of all, is it raises health care premiums for over 20 million Americans by doubling