{"id":63302,"date":"2026-03-25T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63302"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:08:03","slug":"sharing-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63302","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 19th, I posted an article<\/a> about the Democrat plan for the partial government shutdown. The idea was to cause so much pain for the voters that they would put pressure on the Republicans to cave to the Democrats. In the process of doing this, they also exempted themselves from the pain. I am still\u00a0 not convinced this was a wise move. Even if it was successful, they might win the battle and lose the war.\u00a0 However, not everyone is willing to play along with their game.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, The New York Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Delta Air Lines is punishing Congress for failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The airline company has temporarily yanked its special congressional desk service to lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill until Congress finally funds the DHS, which has been in a partial shutdown since Feb. 28.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta,\u201d the company said in a statement first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cNext to safety, Delta\u2019s No. 1 priority is taking care of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult in the current environment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delta\u2019s perks to members of Congress included benefits such as airport escorts and red coat services. Its Capitol Desk reservation line is still open, but lawmakers will be \u201ctreated as any passenger based on their respective SkyMiles status\u201d for the time being.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian delivered a fierce rebuke<\/a> of Congress for allowing funding for DHS to lapse, which has resulted in Transportation Security Administration employees going without full pay for over a month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bastian called the situation \u201cinexcusable\u201d and railed against lawmakers for using TSA workers as \u201cpolitical chips.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As everyone is aware, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/b>) employees have been sent to airports to help keep the waiting lines moving. That is helping with the lines, but it also gives people a chance to see ICE as a positive force helping people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 19th, I posted an article about the Democrat plan for the partial government shutdown. The idea was to cause so much pain for the voters that they would put pressure on the Republicans to cave to the Democrats. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19264,13466,19224,19265,8321,17539],"class_list":["post-63302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-department-of-homeland-security-dhs","tag-partial-government-shutdown","tag-special-congressional-desk-service","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-transportation-security-administration-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63303,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302\/revisions\/63303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}