Can Obama decide to shutdown FAA if he wants to ?

[srican69]

or are his hands tied in making the determination of essential and non essential services ..

[Agschmid]

1. Yah that would be a terrible idea...

[Ohio Joe]

2. Agreed

The shutdown is completely the fault of repugs and it should stay that way. We should be looking only for ways to end it, not expand it.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

3. That would be politically counter productive

[HappyMe]

4. Very bad idea. This is the repubs fault.

There's no reason for him to do that.

[pipoman]

5. He doesn't decide what is essential..

why would he wish to make a bad situation worse?

[blogslut]

6. Each individual agency decides

...in accordance to guidelines set down by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management. Then the plans are sent to the White House for final review.

Here is a link to the existing contingency plans of each agency:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/contingency-plans

Note: I stole this info from an article @ USA Today.

[grantcart]

7. I believe that air control services of the FAA are paid for by travel taxes

and airline user fees and so, like the ACA, are not subject to the budget.

So the answer is no except for smaller rural areas that require subcontracted services.

Not 100% sure on that.

[denverbill]

8. I think he should defund Congressional staff.

Congresscritters would be helpless without their staff, and would actually be able to personally witness the pain of not getting a paycheck. It wouldn't just be some nameless person in Arizona getting no paycheck. It would be the someone they actually know and care about.