TSA moves to center of shutdown drama as jittery lawmakers offer warnings for economy

The Hill · Mar 2, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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Republican and Democratic senators are quietly mulling ways to limit the impact of a prolonged government shutdown on air travel and, by extension, the broader U.S. economy amid a stalemate on funding the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA officers are set to miss their first round of paychecks later...

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