{"id":68483,"date":"2026-03-09T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/travelers-face-long-waits-at-some-us-airports-amid-dhs-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:54:59","slug":"travelers-face-long-waits-at-some-us-airports-amid-dhs-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/travelers-face-long-waits-at-some-us-airports-amid-dhs-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers face long waits at some US airports amid DHS shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait times at security checkpoints in Houston and New Orleans as long as three hours due to shortage of TSA agents<\/p>\n<p>Travelers complained of long waits Sunday \u2013 lasting hours in some cases \u2013 at security checkpoints at airports in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/houston\">Houston<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans\">New Orleans<\/a>, which officials blamed on a government shutdown of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n<p>The estimated wait time at the standard security checkpoint at the William P Hobby airport in Houston early Sunday evening was at one point three hours, according to the Houston Airports website. The Hobby airport on social media Friday said it expected more travelers than normal due to spring break.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/09\/airline-wait-times-dhs-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait times at security checkpoints in Houston and New Orleans as long as three hours due to shortage of TSA agents Travelers complained of long waits Sunday \u2013 lasting hours in some cases \u2013 at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans, which officials blamed on a government shutdown of the US Department &#8230; <a title=\"Travelers face long waits at some US airports amid DHS shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/travelers-face-long-waits-at-some-us-airports-amid-dhs-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Travelers face long waits at some US airports amid DHS shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}