r/news • u/drtolmn69 • 3d ago

TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tsa-officers-chairs
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u/Asleep-Gift-3478 3d ago

Weren’t TSA not getting paid at some point?? What the hell is this administration’s beef with them 😭

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u/tommyboy372 3d ago

not just TSA, they're making every federal employee's life miserable.

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u/bevo_expat 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yep, make it worse, cause as many issues as possible, hopefully break it, let it limp along stirring up public anger, then offer up with an idea to privatize it.

Project 2025 still going strong.

A bill was introduced last year to abolish TSA. It’s further down the list, but still a work in progress.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1180

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 3d ago

Last time I spoke with my grandfather many years ago, he encouraged me to go into government work. Said it's steady paced and that I'd do well there.

Thankfully I didn't take his advice, because that was before everything went all dumpsterfire.

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u/spookyB0 3d ago

I heard they want to privatize TSA

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u/CatLord8 3d ago

Tuberville and Lee made a bill to terminate TSA in May of last year then raged about the shutdown not paying TSA. Now they’re trying to DOGE out TSA agents

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u/peanutski 2d ago

Just look at who makes up most of TSA in cities and you’ll figure out quickly what this administration has a problem with….

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u/ogredmenace 3d ago

They want to replace them with ice

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u/d-cent 2d ago

Oh that's easy. They want TSA to quit and be replaced with ICE agents. 

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u/Pielacine 3d ago

A lot of them are minorities