TSA Lines May Return In October Without Better Government Funding
TSA Chief Peter Neffenger conceded that many of the screening staff hired to handle this spring’s unprecedented security lines may need to be cut if congress can’t agree on a budget.
The cuts would be part of a larger government shutdown looming on October 1st, when the 2017 fiscal year begins.
Long lines started to surface at airport security checkpoints early this spring ...
Amid widespread uproar, the agency took drastic steps to secure more funding, hire more workers and convert part time workers to full time in an effort to save the busy summer travel season.
Much of that success, however, was based on increased staffing at airport checkpoints, a costly line item for the TSA.
Administrator Neffenger suggested that unless congress is able to approve the agency’s budget to include the expanded workforce, new staff will “all go home on October 1st.”
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