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For years members of Congress and their staff had special privileges at airports, allowing them to quickly skip TSA screening lines.
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TSA agents have not been paid since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partly shut down on February 14, after Democrats balked at funding the agency and demanded changes to immigration enforcement by federal agents following the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
An internal watchdog report in the Department of Homeland Security identified serious vulnerabilities in TSA's screenings at airports nationwide.
Wait times listed on the MyTSA mobile app may not be accurate because TSA isn’t actively managing its sites during the shutdown. On third-party websites that track TSA lines, es