Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers at airport security checkpoints are considered "mission essential" and will be required to work without pay if there is a government shutdown. A TSA spokesperson told ABC that 59,000 of the agency's 62,000 employees are considered essen...
They said many federal workers needed for the airport’s operation are considered essential employees, meaning they would continue to come to work. Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of...
Since fiscal year 1977, there have been 20 funding gaps, lasting from as short as 1 day to 34 full days in length. If the government shuts down Saturday at 12:01 a.m., it would be the 21st shutdown. Below is a small snapshot of the impact a shutdown could have on millions of ...
Washington— More than 1.3 million active-duty military members and thousands of air traffic controllers and TSA agents would have to work without pay during agovernment shutdown, a prospect that was avoided thanksto a last-minute deal Saturdaybrokered by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The 45-day...
Federal workers who are classified as "essential" by their agency will continue to work, but they won't get paid. They'll get back pay when the shutdown is over. Will the government shutdown affect Logan airport flights? In Massachusetts, essential government workers include TSA agents, FAA...
The Senate passed a spending bill Saturday night averting a government shutdown that would have triggered a calamitous domino effect on the American public and economy.
Air travel would remain relatively unimpeded, but in previous shutdowns the Transportation Security Administration has warned that airport-security screeners could call in sick at an increased rate. It is not clear whether the United States’ 63 national parks would remain open. During a shutdown...
However, after the lengthy shutdown that began in 2018, it took a long time for those checks to come, according to Alicia Dolforde, who represents hundreds of TSA workers at Reagan National Airport. "It was very stressful. It was high-stress. We were sent...
Remember a couple of years when we watched as our politicians let one of the longest government shutdowns in U.S. history happen? Well, according to the Washington Post, one in 16 TSA employees were out of work during the shutdown. That’s roughly six percent of the airport security, ...
How a government shutdown could impact travel Ross Feinstein, a strategic communications professional who has worked for a handful of government agencies -- including as the former spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration -- shared his insight as someone who has been throu...