US airports advise 3-hours to clear security as TSA agents fail to show for work

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TSA agents are failing to show for work as the partial government shutdown goes into its fourth week.

 

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport advised passengers to “give yourself 3 hours to clear security” as TSA agents are not coming to work.

 

Many agents are now refusing to continue to work unpaid during the partial government shutdown.

 

CNN reporter Omar Jimenez shared video footage of a security line at Atlanta airport, which he said was the “longest security line I have ever seen.”

 

 

Miami International Airport closed one of its concourses for half the day on Saturday.

 

Whilst a terminal at Houston’s George Bush International Airport remained closed Monday for a second day.

 

“Advice to always get to @iah 2 hours before your flight is especially important today,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted Sunday.

 

“Shortage of TSA workers, unpaid during the US gov’t shutdown, is causing this change.”

 

Airport officials have warned that the situation could get much worse if the shutdown isn’t resolved soon.

 

The shutdown, which began on 22nd December 2018, stemmed from an impasse over Trump’s demand for $5.6 billion in federal funds for a US-Mexico border wall.

 

Democrats in the US House of Representatives rejected this demand, citing Trump’s earlier campaign promise that Mexico would pay for the wall.