{"id":69995,"date":"2026-03-25T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/tsa-staffing-shortage-and-upcoming-world-cup-will-create-perfect-storm-warns-acting-head\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:59:57","slug":"tsa-staffing-shortage-and-upcoming-world-cup-will-create-perfect-storm-warns-acting-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/tsa-staffing-shortage-and-upcoming-world-cup-will-create-perfect-storm-warns-acting-head\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA staffing shortage and upcoming World Cup will create \u2018perfect storm\u2019, warns acting head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ha Nguyen McNeill testified before House committee about airport wait times amid DHS funding shutdown<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Wednesday that airports across the country are experiencing the \u201chighest wait times in TSA history\u201d, as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enters its sixth week.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\">House<\/a> homeland security committee hearing, Ha Nguyen McNeill said her agency has been shut down for 50% of the fiscal year so far \u2013 a stretch that includes last year\u2019s record-breaking 43\u2011day lapse in federal funding. She told lawmakers that by Friday, TSA employees will have missed $1bn in paychecks as a result of the closures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/25\/tsa-head-warns-perfect-storm-staffing-shortage-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha Nguyen McNeill testified before House committee about airport wait times amid DHS funding shutdown Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Wednesday that airports across the country are experiencing the \u201chighest wait times in TSA &#8230; <a title=\"TSA staffing shortage and upcoming World Cup will create \u2018perfect storm\u2019, warns acting head\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/tsa-staffing-shortage-and-upcoming-world-cup-will-create-perfect-storm-warns-acting-head\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about TSA staffing shortage and upcoming World Cup will create \u2018perfect storm\u2019, warns acting head\">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-69995","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\/69995","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=69995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}