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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Nov. 4, 2025

Published November 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:07

Since the Democrat shutdown began, four times as many staffing shortages have been reported at air traffic control facilities. Compared to last year, TSA checkpoint wait times ballooned past three hours at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. with some passengers enduring up to five hours in line. At nearby William P. Hobby Airport in Texas, security wait times are routinely exceeding one hour. (01:07–01:15)

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“Since the Democrat shutdown began, four times as many staffing shortages have been reported at air traffic control facilities.”
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“More than 13,000 air traffic controllers are continuing to work without pay because of the Democrats.”
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“Nearly 500 companies and groups in the travel business...signed a public letter warning that America's travel economy has already lost $4…”
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“Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of President Trump's historic, historic election victory where he won nearly 80 million votes…”
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“He is carrying out the largest mass deportation campaign of illegal aliens in our nation's history.”
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“Inflation has remained low and steady, averaging just 2.5% compared to the painful average of 5% under Biden.”
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“When the President was in the Middle East, he made the historic decision to lift sanctions on Syria.”
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“This year alone, we are going to cut the deficit by $600 billion, namely because of the president's effective use of tariffs.”
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“We are now on day 35 of the Democrat government shutdown.”
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“The Democrats obstructionism will break the record for the longest government shutdown in American history.”
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“Our nation's four largest airlines, United, Delta, American and Southwest, have now all endorsed the Republican nonpartisan Clean funding…”
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“President Trump signed the largest middle class tax cut in history.”
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“The President ended the southern border invasion of the Biden administration, made our border the most secure in history.”
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“Real private sector wages are on track to rise by almost $1,500 since President Trump took office.”
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“Gas prices now plummeting, plummeting to their lowest average levels in more than four years.”
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“The President has secured trillions and trillions of dollars in private and foreign investments into the United States.”
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“The President has restored America's place as the leader of the free world through his unwavering peace through strength foreign policy.”
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“The President ended illegal DEI initiatives in our federal government.”
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“We are continually pushing Mexico to do more, to tackle the drug trafficking and the drug cartels within their country.”
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“The president has obviously used the full range of executive options in his authorities to crack down on drug trafficking at our southern…”
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“Democrats, when they if they are ever given a chance at power again in this city, they will absolutely take away the filibuster from the…”
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“49 Democrats who already voted to do this before.”
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“The best way to get the full amount of SNAP benefits to those beneficiaries is for Democrats to reopen the government.”
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“Democrats are holding it up and making it difficult for the administration to get those payments out the door.”
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“If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the United States will immediately stop all aid and assistance to…”
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“The administration is encouraging Democrats to reopen the federal government so this chaos and disruption to our air traffic control system…”
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“Every single major airline in our country coming out and begging the Democrats to please reopen the government.”
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“He wants to pass as many good pieces of legislation as we possibly can for our country and for our people.”
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“We are 100% confident in the president and his team's legal argument in the merits of the law in this case.”
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“We are complying with the court's order. We are getting the payments out the door as quickly as we can.”
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“Democrats should reopen the government.”
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