Air Traffic Controller: Driving for DoorDash Amid Shutdown
17th October 2025
n air traffic controller told lawmakers that he’s been delivering food for DoorDash to make ends meet amid the ongoing government shutdown, which has paralyzed Washington since Oct. 1.
Jack Chris of Dallas told a panel of lawmakers on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” Wednesday that he has worked for the Federal Aviation Administration for 16 years and has “been through the Obama shutdown and also the Trump shutdown.”
“And my question is: Under the current political climate, do you think that this shutdown could actually be longer than the previous shutdowns due to the external pressures, political pressures that we’re having effect right now?” he asked the bipartisan group, which included Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa.; Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and former Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va.
Ask yourself why all of the air traffic controllers in the U.S. work for the Federal government, with their jobs subject to political pissing contests such as the present one.
Ask yourself why they don’t work for individual airports, as the employees of other institutions would.
Remember this when the Common Fringe bitch and moan about “capitalism” and its “oppressions”, never mind that “capitalism” doesn’t exist and hasn’t since FDR.