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An air traffic controller participating in NewsNation Cuomo Town Hall Revealed in front of a panel of lawmakers and pundits on the live show on Wednesday that he is being forced to work as a DoorDash driver due to ongoing problems. government shutdown,
Jack Chris from Dallas, Texas, who worked for federal aviation authority For 16 years, Washington, D.C. stood at the Kennedy Center explain He worked during the last shutdown under both Barack Obama And donald trump And expressed fear that the current standoff could last much longer due to the polarized political environment.
Poignantly, Chris said he is currently being forced to take a second job as a delivery driver to help pay his daughter’s tuition fees.
California Democratic representatives were also among those who responded. ro khannaWho thanked Chris for “making it clear that this is not a game”.
Khanna further said, “There are people like you who will not get paid, are not getting paid.” “Why is it that every member Congress And why won’t senators be locked up in the Capitol complex until we get a deal? Why is this… In other previous shutdowns, my phone would stay on and we would get a message [saying] ‘We’re voting on something.’
“This speaker, and I like the speaker, I came up with the speaker. He’s a man of faith, but he literally shut it down CongressAnd he has closed Congress because he does not want to swear in Adelita Grijalva because he does not want to vote on its release [Jeffrey] The Epstein Files.”
The Congressman was pointing in this direction Case of Arizona representative-elect GrijalvaWho won a special election on September 23 but has not yet been given a chance to take the oath of office. Speaker of the House mike johnson Has refused to call a “pro forma” session to do so.
“The House will follow traditional practice by swearing in Representative-elect Grijalva when the House is in legislative session,” Johnson said. Independent In a statement.
Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes has threatened to sue Johnson over the matter and, like Khanna, has charged that the speaker is stalling proceedings because Grijalva has signaled a desire to make his signature on the discharge petition the decisive 218th that would force a vote on the Epstein files, which could prove politically explosive.
The speaker has rejected that allegation as false. “It has nothing to do with this,” he said. Said Last week. “When everyone comes back we’ll swear him in.”
At the NewsNation event, Khanna and Ohio Republican Rep. jim jordan The latter’s claim that Democrats were to blame for the shutdown was disputed before the host Chris Cuomo Jack returned focus to Chris.
“He is the epitome of who wins the midterms,” Cuomo said. “Whoever wins the vote of the guy who has to run DoorDash because Congress put him in a position will win in the midterms.
“It makes you want to cry that he has to do this, when he’s doing something that keeps us alive, he’s the one who’s going to win in the midterms.”
Concluding the segment, pundit Stephen A. Smith became so angry at Chris’ plight that he had to leave the stage But not before condemning the state of play in Washington in the strongest terms.
“I don’t think Washington understands how troubled we really are,” Smith said. “A young man came up to the microphone and said he had to move from here to work at DoorDash to pay his daughter’s tuition. Meanwhile, everyone came here [is] Payment is being received, but he is not getting it.
“That’s the kind of stuff that’s happening here… That’s why so many Americans apologize for my language, so fuck off in Washington, because somehow, someway, you get a chance to have these conversations, engage in specific elements of it, talk about what we need to do to make things better.”
He concluded, “A government shutdown still going. A guy has to work at DoorDash when he’s actually an air traffic controller… and we’re talking about how much that would cost a few pennies here, and he’s the only one who doesn’t have a check coming. You know what I’m gonna do? I’m going to take a leave…”