Delta Airlines suspends "special Congressional desk" service till shutdown ends

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Do nothing for a do-nothing Congress

[azureblue]

13. Not Congress --

it's Republicans and Trump.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Politics is a "team sport." I'd prefer a collaborative endeavor, but...

Words matter. ❤️

[marybourg]

2. Best thing I have heard all year!

[leftstreet]

3. Make it permanent n/t

[delisen]

4. We so need this kind of equality,.

The overlording of public service has warped our vision for America

[newdeal2]

5. Cancun Cruz won't be happy

How is he supposed to escape his constituents on the fly now?

[TBF]

26. He is my senator, and frankly I prefer him out of the state/country ... lol - n/t

[orleans]

39. lol

[Skittles]

47. yes

although, what did the folk in those other countries do to deserve that

[cloudbase]

46. He flies United.

Houston isn't a Delta hub.

[Skittles]

48. well

let's just hope Delta is leading the way

[Deuxcents]

6. This is the right thing to do, for starters, they take shackled people and contribute to deportation w/o due process

Delta and other airlines should suspend that “service” until Congress fixes that madness. Congress has abdicated their responsibilities with this administration and they need to take em back.

[Initech]

25. They shouldn't fix it. They should refuse to participate.

What Trump and Miller are doing in these mass deportations is extremely illegal and cruel. They need to be stopped and Fat Donny can go shove his "threaten to revoke" bullshit up his ass.

[gab13by13]

7. Maybe Delta watched Rachel Maddow drag them through the mud last night?

Video of Delta flying the little boy with the bunny ears hat to a concentration camp in Texas.

Rachel brutalized them for hauling families with little kids off to concentration camps.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

11. Probably - Flying a little boy to a tRump prison is a bad look. nt

[70sEraVet]

45. After reading your post, I found that clip of Rachel's show.

https://m.

&pp=ygUnUmFjaGVsIG1hZGRvdyBvbiBMaWFtIHJhbW9zIGJlaW5nIGZsb3du

Thanks for your post.

[popsdenver]

8. The Republican congress criters

aren't affected.......they have some Corporation's Private Jet at their service 24/7/365...........

[littlemissmartypants]

18. They wish. Show me your evidence.

[QueerDuck]

9. Here's a non-paywall link to the AJC article in "archive" form

https://archive.ph/iILst

[Norbert]

10. Maybe Kristi can fly them to their destinations

If they promise to sanitize her toys.

[obamanut2012]

12. She isn't in charge anymore

[gab13by13]

14. Yeah but, did she give her jet back?

[Seinan Sensei]

29. Did they take away her residence?

That rent-free house in Navy Yard, which is intended for the Coast Guard Commandant?

[Owens]

15. Nancy Mace is gonna be pissed!!

All the airlines should do this! Republicans will buckle under that!

[underpants]

35. Oh yes! That could be an .....epic fury😃

Nancy would probably be ranting raving and chucking empty airplane bottles at the people in front of her.

[MustLoveBeagles]

42. I wouldn't want to be behind her either

[DFW]

16. I realize that some of them may have urgent «official busness» to attend to

Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2026, 12:12 PM - Edit history (1)

But their seat isn’t going to get there any faster than the rest of the plane, after all.

One time, I was on a commuter flight from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf, and I noticed the guy sitting next to me looked exactly like Walter Scheel, the former President of Germany. I figured, no way, their former president wouldn’t be flying all by himself. But I couldn’t hold back, and I asked him if he was Walter Scheel, and he said yes, that’s me.

I explained that I was from the USA. He asked where. I said originally Virginia, near Washington. He said, oh, sure, I used to travel there every so often when I was still working. « When I was still working?? » The country’s Federal President, instead of saying, « while I was still president, » just puts it as « while I was still working. »

When we landed, we got to German immigration (pre-Schengen), and he presented his passport like anyone else. The German border police waved him through, saying, yes, yes, Herr Präsident, we know who you are. I was right behind him, so he turned to me, and said, take it easy, and see you next time in Washington! The border cops saw my American passport, and said, « you know our president? » I said « of course! » and they said, well then, go on through. Ridiculous, since I could have been a wanted serial killer for all they knew. But it was the easiest border control I ever had.

[KPN]

24. Neat story! Thanks for sharing with us.

[DFW]

32. You'll appreciate this supplemental little detail

The Germans, true to their reputation for being obsessed with bureaucratic detail, in those days used to print the profession of every passport holder in the passport underneath the photo and listed name. When Walter Scheel opened his passport to show the German border police, I saw what was printed in his passport in the line where the holder's profession was supposed to be listed. It read "Alt-Bundespräsident," or "former Federal President." How stodgy can a country get? Can you imagine some CBP officer asking Bill Clinton, arriving from London or wherever, what he does for a living? To their credit, Germany doesn't do that any more.

[KPN]

36. Haha. Yeah, that's some pretty detailed rules-following!

[underpants]

37. Great story and supplemental 👍

[Torchlight]

19. Cruz and Noem are going to be livid if treated like commoners

The snowflakes believe their entitlement and privilege are meant to save them from rubbing elbows with constituent residents (and weather, too) and their folksy concerns over high food prices, stagnant wages (for those with jobs), exorbitant fuel costs, and the General Welfare crap so inconvenient to the wight-wing.

[Quiet Em]

20. Yeah, the picture is pretty clear now

Between Republicans realizing that the public rightly blames the con artist for the slowdown at airports because the con is refusing to pay TSA workers, the bad optics and potential danger of putting ICE agents at airports, and now no perks for Congress.

Suddenly all the Republicans want to work with Senate Democrats to pay the TSA workers after refusing to do so for several weeks.

[bdamomma]

21. Health Coverage

should be suspended to them too.

[llmart]

38. We should take away all their perks...

We would have a much more egalitarian Congress because the users who grift off our taxpayers' dime would have no incentive to run for office. Our country would be so much better off. While we're at it we should pass laws to get the money out of campaigns and limit the time a candidate's campaign can last.

[MustLoveBeagles]

40. This

[Henry203]

22. I've known the mother of the author for years

She was our board memeber for our school district.

[Martin68]

23. Good for Delta!

[niyad]

27. Should have done this from Day One of the shutdown. Maybe charge them

double, or triple.

[MustLoveBeagles]

41. Yep

Charge them extra. They can afford it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Good

[KPN]

31. Is everyone interpreting ths article incorrectly or is it just me. Didn't Cornyn just force Democrats to support a

bill he introduced, publicly touted, and successfully passed via unanimous consent last week to make Senators/Congressmen go through the same long security check procedures as everyone else? Didn't he call out Democrats for not passing DHS funding in doing this? Here's his quote:

“I am glad the Senate has agreed with this commonsense bill to prevent those of us who pass the laws, or in this case refuse to pass the laws funding [the Department of Homeland Security] appropriations, to prevent us from receiving special privileges,”

Couldn't Delta be applying the same sort of pressure? Aren't they the airline that has agreed to work with ICE in moving the folks they kidnap to detention centers and overseas?

I'm not sure applauding Delta is appropriate. Are you?

[BadgerMom]

33. Great! Now do health care and retirement benefits.

It endlessly galls me that Congress gets top-tier health care and generous retirement while we voters and citizens only get them restricting those things. Legislators should be paid a fair wage and not given a whole lot beyond that.

[turbinetree]

34. Finally..............they can join the "small people"..............and see what it is like to eat cake............

next up United and American, Southwest, Jet Blue, Frontier...............what say you...........

[Soul_of_Wit]

43. Delta gives preferential treatment to those with lots of SkyMiles

Guess who tends to have a lot of SkyMiles?

[Ray Bruns]

44. You know what would solve this problem? Another tax cut for billionaires and corporations.