From Florida to Illinois and Georgia to Texas, TSA staffing shortages worsened by the partial government shutdown are contributing to extremely long waits at airports. In a letter to lawmakers, the CEOs of the nation\u2019s major airlines call the $0 paycheck that officers received on Friday, \u201csimply unacceptable.\u201d Since the shutdown started, hundreds of TSA workers have quit as \u201ccall out\u201d rates have also increased significantly. NBC\u2019s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Florida to Illinois and Georgia to Texas, TSA staffing shortages worsened by the partial government shutdown are contributing to extremely long waits at airports. In a letter to lawmakers, the CEOs of the nation\u2019s major airlines call the $0 paycheck that officers received on Friday, \u201csimply unacceptable.\u201d Since the shutdown started, hundreds of TSA … 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-69057","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\/69057","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=69057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}