It was the Air traffic controllers

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4. I figured the TSA employees could end this, forgot about the power of Air Trafic Controllers too.

How the shutdown ends Robert Reich Oct 03, 2025

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends]

Starts with brief history of how these overworked/over stressed essential workers force an end to the 2019 shutdown. Goes on to point out the situation now.

My prediction: This shutdown will end sooner than the last one. Air traffic controllers will ensure it does. Within the next few weeks, a few will call in sick. Then the flight delays will cascade.

At that point, pressure will suddenly mount on the White House and Republicans in Congress to end it.

Why on the White House and congressional Republicans and not on congressional Democrats? Because Republicans now control the government — the presidency, both chambers of Congress, and, effectively, the Supreme Court. They own it.

They and Trump will be blamed for the shutdown, and they’ll have to get the nation out of it — even at the cost of giving in to congressional Democrats.

The TSA workers can also throw a lot of wooden shoes into the machinery that makes our economy go round. TSA and Air Traffic controllers: JUST STAY HOME until the GOP stops this extortion and caves to protect affordable medical care.

Make all those cowards in the GOP who refuse to do their job deal with furious fat cats who won't be able to travel and who see their stocks plummet.