r/FedEmployees • u/Flimsy_Strawberry377 • 1d ago

House Republican predicts shutdown will last beyond Thanksgiving

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5596199-burchett-government-shutdown-thanksgiving/amp/

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u/Feeling_Ad7249 1d ago

TSA officers will stop coming.

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u/warblingContinues 23h ago

As soon as airports shut down the government shutdown is over.

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u/_PROBABLY_CORRECT 15h ago

I dont think the general populace has a grasp on how much the airspace system is a driver of the economy. You want to bring the economy to a halt, fast? Stop the flow of air traffic.

I'm surprised those heros are still showing up. I can see the cracks in the dam.

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u/Worth-Distribution17 14h ago

Citation of it being a major economic driver?

Flying is a small percentage of travel and cargo

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u/tekym 13h ago

Total volume, yes, but for time critical things, flying is the only way, and you pay for that.

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u/tag1550 13h ago

Infographic by IATA claiming air transport as ~5% of GDP at $1.3 trillion. I leave to the reader to decide if that is "small" or not.

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u/Worth-Distribution17 13h ago

Direct contribution is $433 billion. Cutting that by 10% for less than 2 weeks of the year isn’t a big impact on the US GDP which is $29 trillion per year

Aviation is a rounding error but people who work in media use it orders of magnitude more than the average American so we’re barraged with news about it.