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News and Analysis
- NBC: Shutdown pain intensifies as air traffic controllers lose pay, and food assistance is drying up
Where to Watch
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You can find relevant streams on C-SPAN, PBS NewsHour's YouTube channel, AP's YouTube channel.
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C-SPAN: Senate Session – October 29, 2025 (10 a.m.)
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C-SPAN: Speaker Johnson on Day 29 of Government Shutdown (10 a.m.)
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C-SPAN: Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse Holds News Conference on SNAP Benefits (12 p.m.)
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C-SPAN: Senate Minority Leader Schumer & Democrats on Government Shutdown (12:15 p.m.)
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C-SPAN: Sen. Sanders and Democratic Senators News Conference on SNAP Emergency Funds (1:45 p.m.)
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And it’s another day of a 1904-style federal government sitting on the porch eating some crackers out of a barrel, and handpicking which institutions to demolish next.
So how much is this going to beat the previous record by?
It’s not even been a year of this yet….
It took only 10 ATC employees to call in sick last time to end the last shutdown. 10. Out of a total of over 11 _thousand_ employees. Just 10.
Imagine being in a rare position to achieve great change and end a shutdown and not needing huge numbers to do it, and doing absolutely fuck all about it.
Come on, ATC. You didn’t start this shutdown, but you can sure as hell end it. Call in sick. Learn from history. We know it works, it literally worked the last time this situation happened. It’s up to you to come to that realization.
That clip of Trump saying the president is responsible for a shutdown… why isn’t that being played on repeat?