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TSA experiencing highest wait times in
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Posted By: 4250Luis, 3/25/2026 4:06:14 PM

Airline passengers are experiencing some of the highest security wait times in the 25-year-history of the Transportation Security Administration — with some taking more than four-and-a-half hours to make it through checkpoints, a top official told Congress Wednesday. TSA acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to the House Homeland Security Committee that her beleaguered agency is “being forced to consolidate” and “may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers.” “It is a fluid, challenging and unpredictable situation. We understand this is frustrating and disruptive,” she added. “This is unacceptable.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Phantomll 3/25/2026 4:19:39 PM (No. 2084810)
Thanks to Chuck U Schumer!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: voxpopuli 3/25/2026 4:36:58 PM (No. 2084823)
while waiting could they be contacting their DEMOCRAT SENATOR that they probably voted for!?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 3/25/2026 4:48:46 PM (No. 2084827)
Lil Chuckie's mamma must be so proud...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ruhn 3/25/2026 4:52:31 PM (No. 2084828)
Defund TSA. Privatize airport security.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 3/25/2026 7:11:19 PM (No. 2084864)
Don't let TSA back in. They don't get to shut down airports.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 3/25/2026 10:06:10 PM (No. 2084915)
How about we just cancel TSA?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: doctorfixit 3/26/2026 4:51:33 AM (No. 2084954)
TSA made flying so miserable for me I quit, so this latest development will not affect me in the least.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mifla 3/26/2026 6:24:05 AM (No. 2084975)
My first thought is that the country is getting a really good look at stupid Dem policies. My second thought is that too many of then will still vote for Dems.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Geoman 3/26/2026 1:02:43 PM (No. 2085185)
Why all of the vitriol for TSA? GW Bush did not "create TSA," as some here alleged yesterday. TSA was created by Public Law 107-71, also known as the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 (ATSA), which required the federalization of pre-board screening operations, which was previously left to the airlines and a handful of private security screening companies. In addition to federal screeners, ATSA required the rapid investment in and deployment of FAA certified explosives detection equipment to commercial airports. The FAA certification process, developed on the heels of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard, required explosives detection systems to automatically identify and alert the operator to the presence of the type and amount of bulk explosives likely to cause catastrophic damage to an aircraft in flight. The time-bound technical and financial challenges to identify, certify, acquire, and integrate, such high tech equipment into airport environments, often tied in to existing airport baggage handling systems, such explosives detection systems, many of which were still in R&D at the time ATSA was signed, was as complex an endeavor as the Manhattan Project of WWII. The average TSA screener has as must personal autonomy as a recruit private in boot camp. Their duties and responsibilities are handed to them by the likes of GW Bush, Obama, Biden, and Trump. Unlike boot camp recruits, a TSA operator's income is also tied to political gamesmanship. If you only flew out of or into Newark or La Guardia, for example, your view of TSA personnel may be a bit skewed, as it would be conversely skewed if you only flew from Midland, TX, Syracuse, NY, Deadhorse, AK, or Quads Cities, Il airports , which have a high number of military veterans as screeners. Like many problems we face, we need to elect better politicians.
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