{"id":69283,"date":"2026-03-18T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/government-shutdown-may-force-some-airports-to-close-tsa\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:55:56","slug":"government-shutdown-may-force-some-airports-to-close-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/government-shutdown-may-force-some-airports-to-close-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown May Force Some Airports to Close: TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spring break rush is colliding with a mounting TSA staffing shortage as officers work without pay for a 32nd day amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. So far, more than 10% of officers have called out nationwide and the TSA\u2019s acting deputy administrator suggested that entire airports could be shut down if callout rates go up. NBC\u2019s Maggie Vespa reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spring break rush is colliding with a mounting TSA staffing shortage as officers work without pay for a 32nd day amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. So far, more than 10% of officers have called out nationwide and the TSA\u2019s acting deputy administrator suggested that entire airports could be shut down if callout rates &#8230; <a title=\"Government Shutdown May Force Some Airports to Close: TSA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/government-shutdown-may-force-some-airports-to-close-tsa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Government Shutdown May Force Some Airports to Close: 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-69283","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\/69283","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=69283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}