Rick Scott

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

and in some cases tripling or quadrupling.

People can't afford that when we're already paying the highest prices in the world for healthcare.

Number two, it paves the way for 15 million people to be thrown off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act studies show that will mean that some 50,000 Americans will die every year unnecessarily.

And all of that was done to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the 1%.

As everybody knows, just on Tuesday, we had an election all over this country.

And what the election showed is that the American people want us to stand up to Trumpism, to his war against working class people, to his authoritarianism.