Passenger Confronts GOP Congressman Over Flying First Class During Shutdown

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Originally Posted by ATX Wahine

I agree that it would be best for all pertinent politicians to remain in DC during this time. I particularly would love to see an image of them all in a hot, cramped conference room littered with coffee cups and fast food wrappers, sleeves rolled up, busting their asses to achieve a compromise.

But that said, I don’t begrudge anyone for flying First, ever.

Well it does only show how tone deaf Congress is whether we talk this guy or Maxine Waters or anyone else who does this during the shutdown. Free or not, they should be inconvenienced as much if not more so than the workers. Unless they feel the hurt, the shutdown is in no hurry to end via compromise.

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Originally Posted by carterstamp

If Federal Workers aren't getting paid, then the POTUS and the entire House and Senate shouldn't get paid, period. No limos, no first class flying, food allowance, NADA. Let them miss a few meals like their workers are being forced to do.

By law they can. That said it is unconstitutional based on the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution under equal protection under the law. That said to date, it has not been the case of a lawsuit to prove the law signed under Clinton would be ruled for what it is, unconstitutional.