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Canceled the most flights of any airline and it is been pleading with flight attendants to pick up extra july 4th trips to alleviate the issues that the airlines are going through. consumer advocates are quit to point out that airlines received about $50 billion in aid from the federal government because of the pandemic. and they were still not prepared for this. here is what they say. >> we need to have a national discussion about how the airlines are using taxpayer dollars and yet they're still not serving us and they're still inconveniencing us. >> reporter: now united airlines anticipates ...

We didn't do that because republicans started shooting at each other. >> aren't there ways to educate the public to your position without furloughing workers, without shutting down the government? >> it's interesting, back in the old days when tip o'neal was the speaker, he shut down the government 12 times and there was this adversarial give and take between republicans who wanted to do some things and democrats who wanted to do other things. we stopped doing that. tip o'neal used his shutdown to force ronald reagan to back off on his favorite program, star wars. we don't do that anymore. now...

"starting point" begins right now. "starting point," 30 minutes away from a very good indicator that's happening in the jobs market. a big jump in february, 236,000 jobs created. not expecting that kind of robust hiring in march. 190,000 jobs is what analysts are forecasting. 190,000 jobs not enough to bring down the unemployment rate. that unemployment rate stuck at 7.7%. analysts and economists have been dialing back expectations for the health of the jobs market this week. some other weak economic reports out there. this report could show -- could show the early impact of the forced spend...

Fatigue with all of this budget talk now. >> first, it's a key. people to a large degree have tuned out. the effect won't be felt on march 1st except for those of us who try to generate all kinds of controversy, but it's going to be something that will happen fairly quickly and one of those things where the agency, first of all, start furloughing workers. that will cut pay scales by 20%. >> this sequester came out of the debt ceiling crisis out of 2011. it was pushed back to march from january. it goes on and on. is this how congress is doing business now, they're putting everything off? >> th...

>> sounds like a good argument, but we're talking -- in a time when we're closing down schools because there's no money. furloughing workers, et cetera. even though you say those things i think on many american's lists, arts would be -- i'm not saying these things. this is not an argument i'm making just to say those things, that is a facts. that is $29 billion that comes back into state and local government, and into the lives of children and students and teachers across this country. it is a serious amount of money to come back into our economy. particularly at this time. >> so in this parti...