today the wall street journal is reporting it doesn t appear no contingency strategy has not been implemented. no idea one when you say official said, asked about backup plans to end the shutdown. jeff bennett joins me now. when these votes fail, as most believe they will, what will happen after that? reporter: nobody knows. let that wash over you for a minute. day 32 of this partial government shutdown. the longest shutdown in the history of the republic. white house officials and congressional leaders i m told have no backup plan, have no contingency in place when the senate votes are expected to happen on thursday fails. i put that question earlier this hour to a white house deputy press secretary hogan gidley. here s what he had to say. is there a contingency plan in place in case the vote fails? that s hypothetical.
so missing one paycheck will be a burden on you? oh, absolutely. especially with my recent surgery, we really had to come up with like backup plans immediately to figure out what we were going to do. my husband is in there making homemade bread because it s cheaper than buying a loaf at the store. we don t have months or years. we have creditors, medical bills. we have mortgages. we have rent. we have things we need to take care of. that is not the consensus view in the white house, john. inside the white house, they feel like there are a lot of these political pressure points that have been ameliorated. people are going to get food stamps for the next month. people are going to get their tax refunds. the 800,000 people who haven t been paid, how such that going to matter broadly in michigan and ohio and wisconsin? this is some of the things that the president is hearing inside the white house. and the anecdotes that matter are what are the president, inside the white house
and was not pleased about it. quote, total and abject failure here at atlanta airport today. there is no excuse for lack of workable redundant power source. none! take a look at the reaction when the lights finally came back on overnight. [ cheers and applause ] you would be clearing too, if you were stuck in that. i want to bring in the former ntsb member. john scalia, thank you for joining us here. let me pick up where anthony foxx left it there, talking about no excuse for redundant systems here. how is it possible something like this could happen without a backup kicking in? it s amazing they don t have a backup for the airport that size. i mean, i know many, many other airports that do have backup plans, power plans, as part of the emergency response. i mean, but the power is only part of the story here. the other part of the story, which nobody seems to be picking up on, is the passengers.
the level of its pre-crisis economy however it would be wrong to overstate the impact catalonia attracts fourteen percent of all of spain s foreign investment still it lags way behind the spanish capital madrid which brings it almost sixty five percent despite being a top tourist destination and a big exporter catalonia comes forth in g.d.p. per person behind other regions madrid the basque country and navarro. independence could have a downside for the catalan economy to hundreds of companies have chosen to move headquarters elsewhere in spain worrying that disruption and change in catalonia could upset their business that s cost the region billions of euros in lost opportunities many firms are coming up with backup plans in case of independence. the outlook here in barcelona is usually sunny but the economic clowns for both spain and catalonia won t go away as long as the independence question goes
much in recovery pro independence catalans are confident they say their industry and tourism will help them go it alone but breaking away would certainly slow down spain s return to the level of its pre-crisis economy however it would be wrong to overstate the impact catalonia attracts fourteen percent of all of spain s foreign investment still it lags way behind the spanish capital madrid which brings it almost sixty five percent despite being a top tourist destination and a big exporter catalonia comes forth in g.d.p. per person behind other regions madrid the basque country and navarro. independence could have a downside for the catalan economy too hundreds of companies have chosen to move headquarters elsewhere in spain worrying that disruption and change in catalonia could upset their business that s cost the region billions of euros in lost opportunities many firms are coming up with backup plans in case of independence.