Airport security strain during shutdown grows as unpaid TSA officers warn, ‘We’re hurting’

As the lapse in funding at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues, many TSA agents have been forced to accept only partial paychecks for their work — and if the shutdown persists, that partial pay will dry up. 

Many are already receiving no pay at all. 

Deondre White, a Transportation Security officer (TSO) at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C., is in the latter category — and told Fox News Digital that morale among officers "has not been the best."

"We...