NewsNation Host Calls for Subjecting Elites To ‘Travel Hell’ To End Shutdown: Ground Private Jets of Big Donor ‘Rich Folks’

David Gilmour Nov 8th, 2025, 11:20 am

NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert offered a solution to government shutdown in leveraging the aviation “travel hell” he says will hit millions by insisting private jets be “grounded” and “rich folks” forced to ride commercial like everyone else.

The argument lands on the 38th day of the government shutdown, just as the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) warns it will slash air traffic by 10 per cent across 40 major markets in shutdown capacity cut s to maintain safety and an already stretched air traffic control workforce.

During a Friday segment, in a deliberately pointed broadside at America’s elite, Vittert declared:

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