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A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that took effect early Saturday impacts the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with airline reservations may be nervously recalling a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and long delays last year.
Transportation Security Administration officers are expected to work without pay while lawmakers remain without an agreement on DHS’ annual funding. TSA officers also worked through the record shutdown that ended Nov. 12, but aviation experts say this one may play out differently.
Trade groups for the U.S. travel industry and major airlines nonetheless warned that the longer DHS appropriations are lapsed, the longer security lines at the nation’s commercial airports could get.
Funding for Homeland Security expired at midnight. But the rest of the federal government is funded through Sept. 30. That means air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration will receive paychecks as usual, reducing the risk of widespread flight cancellations.
According to the department’s contingency plan, about 95% of TSA workers are deemed essential personnel and required to keep working. Democrats in the House and Senate say DHS won’t get funded until new restrictions are placed on federal immigration operations.
During past shutdowns, disruptions to air travel tended to build over time, not overnight. About a month into last year’s shutdown, for example, TSA temporarily closed two checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport. That same day, the government took the extraordinary step of ordering all commercial airlines to reduce their domestic flight schedules.
John Clark, arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from a business trip in Mississippi, said he was impacted by that earlier shutdown and is worried.
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“You might not be able to get home if you’re already out, or it might delay if you worked all week and you’re trying to get home,” said Clark, who frequently travels for his job balancing machines. “It’s really bad.”
John Rose, chief risk officer for global travel management company Altour, said strains could surface at airports more quickly this time because the TSA workforce also will be remembering the last shutdown.
“It’s still fresh in their minds and potentially their pocketbooks,” Rose said.
What is the impact on travelers?
It’s hard to predict whether, when or where security screening snags might pop up. Even a handful of unscheduled TSA absences could quickly lead to longer wait times at smaller airports, for example, if there’s just a single security checkpoint.
That’s why travelers should plan to arrive early and allow extra time to get through security.
“I tell people to do this even in good times,” Rose said.
Experts say flight delays also are a possibility even though air traffic controllers are not affected by the DHS shutdown.
Airlines might decide to delay departures in some cases to wait for passengers to clear screening, said Rich Davis, senior security adviser at risk mitigation company International SOS. Shortages of TSA officers also could slow the screening of checked luggage behind the scenes.
Burnest R. Green, who flew to Detroit from Phoenix for his sister’s 70th birthday, says he wants the shutdown ended before he flies back in over a week’s time.
“I just hope that things start to get better before they get any worse,” he said.
What travelers can do to prepare
Most airports display security line wait times on their websites, but don’t wait until the day of a flight to check them, Rose advised.
“You may look online and it says two-and-a-half hours,” he said. “Now it’s two-and-a-half hours before your flight and you haven’t left for the airport yet.”
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>>1489388
Republicans try to run America like it's a business, and businesses have workers, and these workers want a proper wage, but business owners try to keep their workers wages as low as possible, and so they have strikes AKA shutdowns.
Only progressive Democrats should run countries
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>>1489433
DHS is getting shut down except for the part that most needs shutting down. They managed to fund ICE fully for five years. They did not extend that courtesy to the Coast Guard or anything else, just the gestapo.
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>>1489443
>shill still doesn't believe the truth that immigrants peaceful, productive taxpayers while conservichuds are violent programed murder machines causing crime
it shouldn't be surprising that real americans are calling for retarded ICE chuds to go home
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>>1489469
Don't worry, they are completely fucked on that big "bonus" they were all supposed to get. Also health insurance for some reason.
The bonus comes in at $10,000 per year for five years, fully taxed in a normal paycheck, and if they quit or get fired for any reason before receiving the final check, they have to pay back the full pre-tax amount. Make it four and a half years, getting maybe $6,000~ per bonus? Too bad, you owe uncle sam $40,000.
Do you think Vance is going to pass up the chance to claw back such a large amount of money if he's president in four years? Do you think any other administration is going to keep all those guys onboard? I don't.
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THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS IS THAT ICE IS ALREADY FUNDED
THE DEMOCRATS SHUT DOWN THE REST OF DHS TO TRY AND PUNISH TRUMP, BUT ICE HAS FUNDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS ALREADY
TRUMPS BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL SAW TO THAT
SO THE DE-IMMIGRATION DRIVE CONTINUES UNIMPEDED, WHILE CRUCIAL SERVICES FOR THE REST OF US ARE DISRUPTED
THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR TRUMP
source: you havent been paying attention if you don't already know this. But heres an article anyway dumbocrat
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/12/ice-dhs-shutdo wn-congress/88643817007/
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>>1489517
ICE cucks have to pay back their bonus if they ever get fired or in trouble lmao
They'll also be barred from all law enforcement and their names are now public
100% of them will be homeless by 2028 guaranteed
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>>1489529
>ICE cucks have to pay back their bonus if they ever get fired or in trouble lmao
worse than that, there's a 5 year period for good conduct and they can get their entire bonus revoked if they fuck it up
Its designed to have the whole thing pulled by Democrats after they get control of congress
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>>1489530
It's not just bad conduct, if they leave the agency for any reason at all (quit, fired, laid off due to massive downsizing, etc) before the full five years, they have to pay back the pre-tax amount of the heavily taxed bonus they received. Even if they save the entire bonus amount just in case they need to give it back, they'll still be short thousands of dollars because it was given to them in a regular taxed paycheck.
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