Going on strike. it would cause all sorts of cau econlems for the american economy. and yet, remember, two or three weeks before the election, i don t know if you remember the shot the president hae u d a press conference in the rose garden i the white house declaring victory on this. i ve solve the problem. mission accomplished. he took a victorroblem!y lap . and , of course, it was only tol punt the thing past the election. then we get past the election. he can t solve the problem. and now he s punting it to congress. sean, that s not presidential leadership. that s not what a president does. okay, reason preside that s the reason these workers are so angry, frankly, is when you ve got eight , you ve got 15% inflation since biden came into office. workerse so workers are agitated because they r e paychecks are shrinkingsh sean. wherell, charlie, whatrinking, s if we get a situation where they pass a law and they rail workers decide not to gork back to work?
Want military contracts, all kinds of contracts. well, under my administration you ain t going to get those contracts if you throw american workerse workers on the street. i think congressman delaney has got a point and fthere s a way of looking at trade that s therapeutic. there is not a single example where a trade war had a winner. trade wars are for losers and the bottom line is let s negotiate a bet trade deal but you re not going to win against china when they have 25% of our total debt and step back and look at trump gives that giant tax cut at the same time and weir are pawing in tariffs and give incredible tax cut to the rich. what is happening is he s transferred that tax obligation to the middle class but tarifffes are not the solution.
Paychecks. so joining me now to discuss this is former faa administrator around current ceo of rolls-royce of north american marian blakely. among those faa workers who have been furloughed are the workerse thousands of aviation sifty inspectors. how is the shutdown affecting frankly the security of our travel system? i don t think the security of the travel system is being compromised at this point. frankly, the faa, tsa, the airline industry, there are way too many professionals and first and foremost the air traffic controllers who simply were not allow safety to be compromised, but we can t have this go on a lot longer. it is a very serious situation, if people continue to miss paychecks. it s a very stressful thing, and this is not a group of people we want to be under extra stress. when you describe the safety concerns, are there any is there anything that passengers
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