It's Friday, November 7th.
I'm Todd Zoellick, in for Jane Costin, and this is What A Day,
the show that knows caring about affordability hits harder when you care about it from a $300 million gold-plated ballroom.
On today's show,
the Federal Aviation Administration cancels flights across the US They say to ease the strain on air traffic controllers during the record long government shutdown.
And the jury in the case of a man who slung 12 inches of vigilante justice at a federal officer on multigrain,
no less, has reached its verdict.
But let's start with the cost of things.
Everyone seems to have gotten the message on affordability after Tuesday.
Democrats, Republicans, even the crypto king president.
For Dems, It's a no-brainer.
The cost of health care, the cost of eggs, they pivot to it all the time.
So if they can interpret every last vote as being about affordability,
even without evidence, they're gonna.
Okay, but what about President Trump?
Can a man fixing to fly a $400 million jet gifted from Qatar or trade off of $2 billion in Emirati crypto really know about the price of a Thanksgiving turkey?
You betcha.
On Thursday, Trump talked about some new data he likes from his favorite donors, Walmart.
They just came out with a very powerful statement.
They've done it for many years that under the Biden administration,