{"id":70156,"date":"2026-03-27T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/atlanta-travelers-face-uncertain-airport-wait-times-as-dhs-funding-deal-nears\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:07:28","slug":"atlanta-travelers-face-uncertain-airport-wait-times-as-dhs-funding-deal-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/atlanta-travelers-face-uncertain-airport-wait-times-as-dhs-funding-deal-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta travelers face uncertain airport wait times as DHS funding deal nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers report varying experiences at different times of day at security screening as ICE agents assist TSA staff<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/27\/senate-dhs-shutdown-funding-deal-trump-iran-hormuz-latest-news-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport turned the digital wait time sign off days ago. Predicting passenger behavior can be hard; predicting the behavior of unpaid TSA agents is also hard. Keeping an accurate clock has been impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Even though ICE agents have started filling in for TSA screeners at some airports, a morning flight might mean a three-hour slog with lines winding around baggage carousels, from the security checkpoint all the way outside to the curb.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/atlanta-airport-wait-times-tsa-ice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers report varying experiences at different times of day at security screening as ICE agents assist TSA staff US politics \u2013 live updates Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport turned the digital wait time sign off days ago. Predicting passenger behavior can be hard; predicting the behavior of unpaid TSA agents is also hard. Keeping an accurate &#8230; <a title=\"Atlanta travelers face uncertain airport wait times as DHS funding deal nears\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/atlanta-travelers-face-uncertain-airport-wait-times-as-dhs-funding-deal-nears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Atlanta travelers face uncertain airport wait times as DHS funding deal nears\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156","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=70156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}