Sean Duffy
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69 recordings
15 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5d ago
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · GOP Leaders Panic and Lose it on Air as Plan Blows Up · 10 Nov 2025
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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.
Yesterday, we had 81 staffing triggers with air traffic controllers across the airspace.
You reported there was a whole slew of cancellations and delays across the airspace.
That trend line is getting worse, right?
More controllers aren't coming to work day by day.
The further they go without a paycheck because Democrats refuse to pay them.
I have more complaints coming into the FAA from pilots who are saying that air traffic controllers are not as responsive.
They seem stressed or they're not using the appropriate language because they're under pressure.
So I look at that data that came from the safety team and the trend line is going in the wrong direction.
So I need to take action and make sure that we keep people safe.
If the government opens on day one, will I see an immediate response from controllers?
No, the union is telling me it's going to take time to get them all back in.
I don't wish this was the circumstance in which I was dealing with.
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