Airport wait times are longest in TSA history, agency says

mrlonglong

Annoying millions of Americans will make them less likely to vote for Repugnants at midterms.

mikestew

And yet Sea-Tac on Tuesday morning didn’t look bad, and with TSA Precheck Touchless, it was a few minutes. Apparently Sea-Tac has a very low TSA absentee rate: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sea-tac-bucks-national-...

ivraatiems

Why would you come to work if you weren't getting paid at all? I'm not following that. Because you assume you'll get backpay? That aside, I simultaneously hold several thoughts about this. The first is: The TSA probably doesn't need to exist at all in its current form; I'm not aware of any evidence they actually do anything to stop actual threats. The second is: I have sympathy for the folks who work there, who probably are in it mostly to have a stable and non-controversial government job. I'm sure they're going through it, for political reasons that are not their fault. The third is: There is zero political incentive for either side to cave on this, that I can see, and as somebody who is generally opposed to the behavior of ICE, I think we as the American public will just have to eat it until they are reined in. I'm including myself in that; this has messed with my travel plans and will continue to do so. But if I were on the other side of the issue, I think I'd hold the exact same opinion: There is no incentive not to continue the shutdown.