TSA Lines Expected To Increase As More Agents Quit During Shutdown

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The Department of Homeland Security has been effectively shut down for a month, after Senate Democrats refused to restore funding unless the agency makes significant reforms to ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. While the focus of the shutdown has been on those agencies, one of its side effects has been increasingly long TSA lines at more and more airports. The disruption to travel is expected to worsen as TSA agents missed their first paycheck on Friday, and hundreds have already quit.