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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Question about something I should probably know by now... The Big "Beautiful" Bill authorized all this new funding for ICE and DHS. How do these quarterly shutdown discussions weave into legislation that has already been passed? Am I correct in saying it's because the BBB contains more of the summary, high level funding levels for these agencies. But getting the check written and actual money transferred requires additional congressional action containing all the details. In a normal functioning congress, those details are fleshed out for the entire FY. But since we're dealing with a Mike Johnson congress, we keep passing these stopgap short term funding details which just do the bare minimum. It's currently too dysfunctional to pass anything long term through the end of the FY. Is that a roughly correct understanding?
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Trump’s America
And hopefully in the coming weeks the Supreme Court will invalidate all these bullshit tariffs anyway.
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Booking a private flight . . . .
^^yep. Buying into private jet ownership is probably not too difficult for a "rich" person. The kicker is when you want to actually use it for a trip. Landing fees, parking fees, crew costs, fuel in the 1000s of gallons, engine/maintenance hourly charges. Only a seriously rich person can be able to pay all that without going bankrupt. I'd much rather spend a fraction of it on a First Class ticket on AA.
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The Supremes
Maybe a decision on tariffs or birthright citizenship...
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Trump’s America
There are a few on 35 between Hillsboro and Austin. I remember one said "NO FUNDING FOR ILLEGALS" 🙄
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I have graduated after 20 years
Otsukaresama des!
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The Supremes
Goddamn is that still your schtick?
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Hegseth & the Boys
In today's cabinet "meeting" he said he watched the first strike live, the vessel was on fire, and since he's a busy guy he had other meetings to attend so he left the conference room to do other things. Then, only later did he learn of the second strike while he was off doing other things.
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Running and Jogging and Shuffling
I travel a lot for work and although I hate treadmills, it's usually my only option on the road (especially in the winter months). Anyway for whatever reason I've never touched the slope angle, but lately have been doing 3-5 degrees of an upslope. You can definitely feel it and I'd like to think it's adding some type of benefit.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
lol reminds me how those obnoxious AOs in the Navy would sign-off their e-mails: "IYAAOYAS!" 🙄
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UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
Dassault is still making 900s, it's an s-duct though.
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Should Traffic Controllers be paid during shutdowns? And should private planes receive the same access as commercial airlines during flight restrictions?
Using the terms "GA" or "private planes" is a hugely broad brush because it's not just private jets. There is absolutely GA low-hanging fruit that, in my opinion, should be grounded first in the event of a shutdown. For example there's a shitload of Cessna 172 and Cherokee student pilots clogging up the system, requesting VFR flight following and a Class Bravo clearance for their flight from Denton to Waco. Not to mention their departure tower is already handling 4 touch-n-go's in the pattern (half of which want a short approach) and 5 in line waiting for takeoff. That should be the first to get cut and would help alleviate both tower and enroute ATC: no pattern work at a towered field and VFR on your own. Another would be instrument students who want to knock out 4 practice approaches on a single IFR flight plan (each with the published miss please!) at Conroe, Hooks, and then Sugarland. Those take up far more ATC bandwidth and patience than a Gulfstream on a standard departure/arrival whose going to get in/out of the area quickly. After that you could work your way up through grounding piston, then turboprop, etc. using either engine type or MTOW, maybe even adding a Part 91 vs. 135 element to it. Point being if a government shutdown forces us to start grounding aircraft, there are many different ways to split up the GA world that would have a meaningful impact on alleviating ATC's job. And the private jets would likely be quite far down that list. (Except Teterboro, that's its own animal and no idea how to manage that through a shutdown except grounding flights). Agree 1,000% with this.
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