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Senator Kennedy Is Right If the Government Shuts Down So Should Congress Pay

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Ben Watson
Nov 10, 2025
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Last week I was in Dallas, Texas, for business and wasn’t even sure I’d have a flight home. The ripple effect of this record-long government shutdown has reached nearly every industry, including now the airline sector that depends on federally-paid workers in air traffic control centers. And to think that these folks had to go without paychecks before a…

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