TSA Misery
The Transportation Security Administration is experiencing the longest wait times ever in its 24-year history because of the ongoing partial shutdown, the agency's deputy administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
Wait times at some major airports have exceeded four hours, and employees at those airports are calling out of work at rates of 40% to 50%, McNeill told members of the committee. If this partial government shutdown continues into Friday, TSA will have missed almost $1 billion in paychecks since it began, McNeill said.
"This level of disruption is unprecedented, and unacceptable, and significantly undermines the security of U.S. transportation systems," she said. NPR.org
Government funding is the roadblock used to push or stall agendas for the the past 30 years. The tactics sometimes work and but often backfire against the instigators of the shutdown, or at least they used to in the past. The American public is now so accustomed to such government breakdowns that it seems to become expected and adjusting to the inconveniences is now part of the life most expect to live.
