{"id":2585074,"date":"2026-03-29T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tsa-done-for-ex-obama-dhs-chief-says-shutdown-woes-could-break-the-back-of-tsa\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:42:45","slug":"tsa-done-for-ex-obama-dhs-chief-says-shutdown-woes-could-break-the-back-of-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tsa-done-for-ex-obama-dhs-chief-says-shutdown-woes-could-break-the-back-of-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Done for? Ex-Obama DHS Chief Says Shutdown Woes Could &#8216;Break the Back&#8217; of TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftsa-done-for-ex-obama-dhs-chief-says-shutdown-woes-could-break-the-back-of-tsa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2585074&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former Obama governance official warned that a goverment shutdown could \u201cbreak teh back of aviation security\u201d in the United States as TSA staffing wanes and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >airport lines grow longer<\/a>. Democrats have blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security over ICE operations, pressing for new restrictions after January shootings in Minneapolis tied to immigration enforcement. Jeh Johnson, the former Homeland Security secretary, told Morning Joe that the country is in a heightened threat habitat and that DHS remains underfunded, with hundreds of TSOs quitting and Atlanta\u2019s airport experiencing very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-michigan-demands-1200-for-china-documents\/\" title=\"University of Michigan Demands ,200 for China ...s\">long wait times<\/a>. he urged that the situation is madness given security needs, while Delta Airlines cut some services for Congress and the Senate planned a voting on DHS funding amid no near-deal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A former Obama administration official warned Thursday that the government shutdown could &ldquo;break the back of aviation security&rdquo; in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have filibustered funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over operations by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), demanding new restrictions on the agency after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in January in Minneapolis during demonstrations opposing federal immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told &ldquo;Morning Joe&rdquo; co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers resigning, airport lines would grow longer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So what I&rsquo;m going to say here is a nonpartisan statement, not directed at Democrats or Republicans, directed at both in Congress. In my judgment what is happening right now is sheer madness,&rdquo; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are in a heightened threat environment because we have gone to war &mdash; and that&rsquo;s what it is, a war, it&rsquo;s not an operation &mdash; we&rsquo;ve gone to war against the government of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism. Yet the government &mdash; the department of our government that is there to protect the American people is defunded right now and has been defunded for the last month and a half.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you drill down, the agencies of DHS that the Democrats are most angry at, CBP and ICE, are actually being funded through discretionary funding, through aggressive reprogramming, and the agency of our government that interacts most with the American people, TSA, is not being funded right now.&rdquo; Johnson continued.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump ordered ICE agents to airports to assist TSA during the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security to address the long lines in airports. Johnson claimed members of Congress wouldn&rsquo;t be affected.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am concerned that what&rsquo;s happening now is going to break the back of aviation security in this country. Hundreds of TSOs are quitting,&rdquo; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In Atlanta and elsewhere &mdash; Atlanta is the busiest airport in our country, 40 percent of TSOs didn&rsquo;t show up this week to work. The lines are four and five hours long, as you&rsquo;ve been reporting, and Congress is about to go on their spring break.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Good luck getting there,&rdquo; Brzezinski said, with Johnson adding, &ldquo;And when &mdash; when they get to the airports, I guarantee you none of them will wait four or five hours in the lines.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday it was shutting down &ldquo;specialty services&rdquo; for members of Congress due to the shutdown, depriving members of Congress of airport escorts and &ldquo;red coat&rdquo; service.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is slated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/dhs-shutdown-2026-senate-funding-day-41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vote<\/a> on the funding measure for DHS on Thursday afternoon, but both sides are not close to a deal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-weighs-in-on-deadly-subway-clash-after-desantis-calls-marine-a-good-samaritan\/\" title=\"Trump Weighs In on Deadly Subway Clash After DeSantis Calls Marine a &#039;Good Samaritan&#039;\">nonpartisan newswire service<\/a>, is available without charge to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-membership-plummets-to-record-low\/\" title=\"Union Membership Plummets to Record Low\">legitimate news publisher<\/a> that can provide a large audience. 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Democrats have blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security over ICE operations and pressed for new ICE restrictions after January shootings in Minneapolis tied to demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement. Jeh Johnson, ex-DHS secretary, told Morning Joe that TSA lines would grow longer as screeners resign, calling the situation \u201cmadness\u201d and noting that the country is at war with Iran even as the department meant to protect the public is underfunded.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the agencies Democrats fault most-CBP and ICE-are funded through discretionary spending, while TSA, which interacts most with the public, lacks adequate funding. Trump had directed ICE agents to airports to help TSA during the partial shutdown. Johnson suggested Congress members wouldn\u2019t be affected. He warned that the shutdown could \u201cbreak the back\u201d of aviation security, with hundreds of TSOs quitting; in Atlanta alone, about 40% of TSOs didn\u2019t show up, and lines stretched to four or five hours as Congress prepared for spring break.<\/p>\n<p>Delta Air Lines even announced it would suspend certain services for members of Congress due to the shutdown, removing airport escorts and \u201cred coat\u201d assistance. The Senate was expected to vote on the DHS funding measure that afternoon, but a deal remained out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The rest of the text includes site-specific scripts, licensing notes, and form fields that are part of the article\u2019s web page rather than the reporting itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2585075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7382.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7492,72903,19220,5123,9673],"class_list":["post-2585074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-dhs","tag-homeland-security-2","tag-obama-era","tag-shutdown","tag-tsa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7382.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585078,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585074\/revisions\/2585078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}