"This is why you have so many Americans so p----- off": Stephen A. Smith

You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take a break.

Hello, my name is Jack Chris and I'm from Dallas, Texas, and I'm an air traffic controller for the Federal Air Base in the United States. And I've been there 16 years. I've also been through the Obama shutdown and also the Trump shutdown in the previous, 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 to face right now? Because I am actually driving DoorDash when I get off work just to kind of make sure I

can pay for my daughter's tuition. I don't think Washington understands how ticked off we truly are. We're listening to this kind of stuff while a young man walked up to the microphone and said that he had to leave here to go and work on door dash to help pay for his daughter's tuition. Meanwhile, everybody up here getting paid. But he ain't. It's this kind of stuff right here.

That's how you know, and I'm not accusing any of you directly or personally of feelings of this way. I'm just talking about the apparatus that is Washington, the nation's capital. This is why you have so many Americans, excuse my language, so pissed off at Washington.

Because somehow, someway, you get to have these conversations, engage in specific elements of it to talk about what we need to do to get things better. Our debt is 37.8 trillion. Somehow, someway, the tax payers been paying this, been throwing money, because we all look at our check,

and it's been going to the government, and somehow, some way, you're supposed to be doing something constructive and productive enough to make sure that we don't have that kind of deficit. It isn't happening. A government shutdown is going on right now.

A man has to work on DoorDash when he's really an air traffic controller that we applauded, and we're up here talking about how much some money is going to cost, and the only person that don't have a check coming is him. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to take a break.

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