ABC Claims Trump WH Is Utilizing Flight Cuts, Hungry Individuals as Partisan Instruments

On Friday’s Good Morning America, the ABC program implied with out proof flights are being minimize to purposefully hurt Individuals on this authorities shutdown and touted the partisan claims of a federal choose appointed by President Obama (which they refused to say) accusing the administration of not totally funding the federal meals stamps program to starve Individuals.

In simply this week alone, ABC’s Good Morning America has repeatedly celebrated New York Metropolis communist Zohran Mamdani, defended an unlawful alien taking immigration officers on a chase to her work at a daycare (the place she may use the infants as human shields), engaged in sudden respect towards the late Dick Cheney, and was skeptical Nigerian Christians are being persecuted. 

Weekend co-host Whit Johnson went down the airline cancellations route, huffing “vacationers feeling turbulence because the FAA cancels lots of of flights at 40 main airports due to the federal government shutdown” and “frustration mounting” with “greater than 800 flights already canceled this morning.”

As an alternative of leaving it at that, Johnson boasted “critics argue” the cancellations are “only a transfer to strain Democrats to reopen the federal government because the shutdown reaches day 38.” Hilariously, Johnson’s proof rapid fell flat due to his personal phrases:

As for the meals stamps, co-host and Clinton official George Stephanopoulos teased: 

Showdown over SNAP advantages…as considerations develop for an increasing number of individuals attempting to place meals on their desk, a federal choose now accusing the Trump administration of withholding federal meals help for political causes and ordering it to totally distribute advantages. The response from the White Home.

Friday co-host Rebecca Jarvis later touted the choose as having “accused the administration of withholding the advantages for political causes.”

Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott cheered the “sturdy phrases from the federal choose saying the administration didn’t comply along with his courtroom order and should totally fund SNAP advantages by at the moment, however it does set the stage for one more authorized battle with 42 million Individuals hanging in limbo.”

The virulent Trump hater parroted Jarvis and quoted from the Obama partisan’s alleged ruling that certain didn’t come off like a authorized opinion and extra like an MSNBC monologue:

[T]his morning, a federal choose accusing the White Home of withholding federal meals help for political causes and ordering the administration to totally distribute SNAP advantages by at the moment. Choose John McConnell saying: “Individuals have gone with out for too lengthy, not making funds to them for even one other day is unacceptable.”

Scott mentioned the choose used a Trump Reality Social publish about SNAP solely totally resuming when the federal government reopens as proof they’re ravenous Individuals:

“The choose pointing to the president’s personal phrases, accusing the administration of defying the courtroom’s order and inflicting ‘irreparable hurt,’ saying ‘the proof exhibits that folks will go hungry, meals pantries can be over burdened, and pointless struggling will happen,’” she opined.

Scott concluded with successful on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), whining “the Home of Representatives has been out of city and out of session for 49 days.”

Co-host Michael Strahan threw in a Stephanopoulos-like jab, calling Johnson’s choice to drive the Senate to do its job (a novel idea, proper) “embarrassing at this level,” including “it truly is.”

NBC’s At this time solely met GMA midway by going together with the touting of Choose McDonnell.

“Practically 42 million Individuals depend on meals help, and the federal choose on this case blasting the administration for delaying these advantages, partly for what he referred to as political functions, including, not making funds for even one other day is solely unacceptable. The White Home, although, already pushing again,” senior Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles started.

Fretting “meals advantages for roughly 42 million Individuals stay in limbo” and assigning zero blame, Nobles touted “a federal choose in Rhode Island ordering the Trump administration to totally fund the meals help program, referred to as SNAP, by at the moment…comply with[ing] weeks of chaos and confusion leaving households questioning how they’ll pay for his or her subsequent meal and lengthy traces at meals banks throughout the nation.”

An anecdote from a New York Metropolis meals kitchen later, Nobles acknowledged senators remaining in D.C., however framed Democrats as those preventing for Individuals (click on “broaden”):

NOBLES: In the meantime, on Capitol Hill, some faint indicators of progress to finish the shutdown. The Senate’s making ready to take a procedural step at the moment towards making a bundle that might result in the reopening of the federal government. However Democrats insist Republicans should negotiate reforms to well being care, together with an extension of the tax credit for the Inexpensive Care Act.

SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT); We’re right here begging for negotiation, and our Republican companions are refusing to speak to us.

NOBLES: Republicans keep they’re keen to barter on well being care, however say there must be a vote to reopen the federal government first.

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER JOHN THUNE (R-SD): How way more do Individuals must endure earlier than Democrats are happy?

Nobles concluded with what appeared to have been a tacit admission about Democrats maintaining the federal government shuttered, declaring “most Democrats are insistent that Republicans have to carry extra to the desk to ensure that the shutdown to finish[.]”

In distinction to all this, CBS Mornings didn’t promote the Obama choose or this conspiracy concept about trimming flights.

Co-host Gayle King plainly said: “The federal government shutdown is reporting a brand new actuality to American life, ready in lengthy traces. These are the pictures of individuals lined up ready at meals banks after SNAP advantages ran out…[S]tarting at the moment the airways have been informed to fly fewer planes throughout the shutdown.”

Moments later from Phoenix Sky Harbor, transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave acknowledged the hearth alarm going off as symbolic of the nation’s aviation system.

And, forward of an interview King and co-host Tony Dokoupil carried out with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Van Cleave additional laid the bottom work for stating the plain for why the choice was made (click on “broaden”):

VAN CLEAVE: They’re actually sounding the alarm at Sky Harbor for one thing, however it’s an apt metaphor for what’s going on throughout the nation’s airspace. Controllers unpaid, beneath strain, pressured and fatigued, prompting the FAA to order airways to chop flights, beginning at 4 p.c, builds to 10 p.c on the nation’s 40 busiest airports and it begins now. With 1000’s of flights set to be cancelled at airports throughout the nation this weekend, traveler frustration over the federal government shutdown and its influence is mounding.

(….)

VAN CLEAVE: The air visitors controllers union says the nations was 1000’s of controllers brief earlier than shutdown. Now many current controllers are calling out sick, some even quitting after having gone weeks with out pay and receiving a second zero-dollar pay stub Thursday.

NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION’s NICK DANIELS [on CBS News 24/7’s The Takeout With Major Garrett, 11/07/25]: They’re frightened about placing fuel of their automotive. They’re frightened about placing meals on the desk. They’ll’t even pay for youngster care in some situations. So, as that threat will increase, it’s important to start lowering the capability of the system.

To see the related transcripts from November 7, click on right here (for ABC), right here (for CBS), and right here (for NBC).