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36 air traffic control facilities of reported staffing problems.

That includes the towers in Chicago O'Hare, Dallas, Fort Worth, Phoenix Sky Harbor, huge hubs for American Airlines.

You can also have the towers at San Francisco and LAX to the list.

This is all on the heels of the worst weekend for air traffic control staffing since the shutdown began.

One of the main points of the awful government shutdown, of course, the air traffic controller

situation, the flight cancellations.

Everybody is glad the shutdown is just about over. Everybody, but a lot of Democrats, apparently.

I don't understand how a Democratic senator goes, wow, we won really big. Let me cave now. In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, the shutdown actually gave him more power,

Exhibit A being what he's done with SNAP and SNAP benefits across the country.

There's no way to defend this. You are right to be angry about it. I'm angry.

Oh, I think this whole thing stinks. And I think most members of the House caucus on the Democratic side are absolutely outrage.

Tonight, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans to allow them to go forward on this

continuing resolution. And to my mind, this was a very, very bad vote.

Wow. I read Mark Halperin's newsletter today, and usually he's just got a whole bunch of news

items, but today it was a long kind of essay about the two political parties and how they

both have this inner turmoil, and it'll be interesting to see where it lands. You've got the

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