Senate ignores Trump, moves bill that keeps FAA intact

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Source: Washington Post

By Ashley Halsey III June 29 at 10:50 AM

The Senate on Thursday ignored President Trump’s desire to lop more than 30,000 workers from the federal payroll, approving legislation that protects the Federal Aviation Administration from being split in two.

Trump endorsed with great fanfare this month a House plan to spin off air traffic controllers and close 20,000 other workers into a nonprofit private corporation. Flanked by several former secretaries of transportation at a White House ceremony, Trump said: “The previous administration spent over $7 billion trying to upgrade the system and totally failed. Honestly, they didn’t know what the hell they were doing, a total waste of money.”

But an increasingly independent Senate, emboldened by Trump’s legislative failures, opted to disregard the White House push to privatize the controllers and those working on modernizing the aviation system.
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Ashley Halsey reports on national and local transportation. Follow @ashleyhalsey3rd

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/senate-ignores-trump-moves-bill-that-keeps-faa-intact/2017/06/29/76e0488c-5ccf-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html

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Senate ignores Trump, moves bill that keeps FAA intact - The Washington Post

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[ailsagirl]

1. Good. Keep ignoring the clod

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A simple but horrifying formula:

If he's for it = always bad for Americans

[CountAllVotes]

2. +1,000 !!

No kidding! IGNORE this FAUX wanna be president who is not my president!

& recommend!!

[ailsagirl]

16. Thank you!

[Aviation Pro]

3. Well done....

...seriously, well done, they are starting to put country over party in small baby steps.

[lunasun]

4. Only because they fly in planes . No change in being self serving assholes it's cuz they don't

wanna die

[get the red out]

6. That's what I was thinking!

Flying back and forth from home to DC, they won't risk their own lives for the idiot Trump!

[lunasun]

7. See how they will step out of the trump line when it will affect them? Other people not so much

[Bengus81]

12. I think this is something Dems in Congress should really latch onto..........

When THEIR azzzz is on the line with some idiot sub-contractor ATC guy they don't want to take the chance of DIEING. When it's everyone else needing the ACA they're wanting to dump it in a heart beat.

[ancianita]

5. Agent Orange is a liar or fool about air US vulnerability in globalists' jet traffic.

This guy pulls out every globalist trick in the book, yet his chumps cling to the belief that he's serving their long term interests.

[NewJeffCT]

8. OK - the Senate advances the bill

but, like the Russian sanctions, will it get to a vote in the House?

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. There is a related House bill but the Senate just "said" it will be voted down.

House was told via the the announcement in the OP. such a bill will not pass Senate, where there is a tiny Repub. margin.

Trump had a picture taken of him signing ...a memo...of intent to ask Congress for approval of the idea.
Seriously, a pic today of him signing a memo at the desk, surrounded by various functionaries.
He has not sent any actual legislation to Congress, been using Exec. Orders, some of which may not be even legal.

[Javaman]

9. and here is tRumps reaction...

expect a stream of crazy tweets from the orange menace

[benld74]

10. Interesting to see WHO puts Down the Clown, the wife had to do it in this movie

[Bengus81]

11. Sure...because they all FLY all over the US.........

They don't want a load of third rate HACKS running the air traffic control. When THEY might DIE they have NO problem ignoring Trump. When it's the rest of us with health care they trip all over themselves to throw it in the dumpster.

[KT2000]

13. +1

good point.

[geek tragedy]

14. and that was the high point of Infrastructure Week nt

[progressoid]

15. How sad is it that keeping the FAA is considered a win.

fuck me. What have we come to.

[DFW]

17. Most Senators take airplanes

Republican Senators will vote for anything that increases the misery of the common man, or enriches their donors. BUT: when it comes down to their own personal convenience, well, THAT'S where they draw the line.

Fifty thousand children in their state go hungry? Tough. That's God's will.

They get home two hours later for July 4th weekend due to air traffic complications? ARE YOU SHITTIN' ME? THAT'S KOMMANISM!! No way anything like that is passing MY committee, nosiree!