Air Travel Liberal Sabotage and the Filibuster Fight

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Government Shutdown & Air Travel Disruption
- The shutdown is blamed for causing flight cancellations, long lines, and increased safety risks in air travel.
- Air traffic controllers are described as overworked and stressed, leading to more ground incursions and pilot complaints.
- The Transportation Secretary (Sean Duffy) discusses a phased reduction in flights (starting with 4%, then additional 2% increments) to reduce pressure and risk in the system.
Partisan Blame
- The narrative strongly criticizes Democrats, accusing them of:
  - Deliberately prolonging the shutdown.
  - Rejecting a Republican bill to pay essential workers.
  - Using the shutdown as a political weapon to hurt the public and blame Donald Trump.
- Republicans are portrayed as trying to resolve the crisis and protect public safety.
Filibuster Debate
- Senator Tommy Tuberville supports eliminating the filibuster to push legislation through, arguing that Democrats are emboldened by recent election wins.
- Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, is quoted as supporting filibuster reform but also criticizing his own party for prioritizing politics over national interest.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.8	We have a shutdown, as you probably know, because the Democrats have gone, they're crazy,
0:10.9	but they don't care if they hurt the country.
0:12.5	But we've approved it 14 times.
0:15.6	We've approved a opening up 14 times, and they keep rejecting it.
0:19.9	And they want to have a lot of bad things happen
0:22.8	bad things for our country we're not going to give 1.5 trillion dollars to people that came into
0:27.7	our country illegally we're not going to do it to people came from prisons they came from mental
0:32.6	institutions and drug dealers and they want to give them medical care. You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson.
0:41.0	Good Saturday morning to you. Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got one big bombshell story for you coming out of the White House, and that is this.
0:49.1	So the government shutdown is what everyone's talking about.
0:52.4	This is there is literally chaos in the air as flights are
0:56.0	being canceled now at record numbers. So where are we at this moment? I have all the details for you.
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