TSA Is Still Understaffed and Can’t Hire New Officers After Trump Orders
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With the TSA caught up in a federal hiring freeze, we could see a return to last summer's security line debacle for flyers. Not to mention the potential impact of airports overwhelmed by hundreds or thousands of protestors.
The recent federal hiring freeze instituted by President Trump could have serious ramifications for the Transportation Security Administration, according to testimony at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing today.
J. David Cox, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the union which represents TSA workers, told lawmakers that he had not received any specific guidance from the Trump administration on how the freeze would affect Transportation Security Officers (TSOs), since they are federal
