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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Greetings, conversationalists.

Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

I am delighted to have you with me today as the government shut down rolls on.

Republicans seem a little bit in disarray all of a sudden, and the Democrats appear to be united,

but I have good sources on Capitol Hill and inside the White House and even among some of the Democrats.

And I'm here to tell you the plot is thickening on Capitol Hill as the pain has started to be felt.

So let's just take people traveling through airports.

The slowdowns start today.

The FAA warning that they will be reducing the number of air traffic controllers, but not just that.

The number of TSA agents will also be reduced.

So, you know, when I travel through Atlanta, I go through a private terminal.

I don't fly private, I wish, fly Delta, but I go through a private terminal that has a TSA

checkpoint inside that terminal. And they announced today that it is closing.

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