Well, travelers have become collateral damage.

This, because TSA lines are getting super long.

Some airports are saying, give yourself four to five hours to get through security.

Yikes.

This, because of the funding that has lapsed, agents are working without pay, and there's lots of staffing shortages.

So you've got the Department of Homeland Security has been in that mid-shutdown since the middle

of February. Congress still deadlocked over immigration policies, and these TSA agents that are

considered essential, they're keep on working

even when they're not getting paid, but they're taking a little bit longer to get you through

security. Yeah, I think most Americans probably forget that we're operating under a partial

government shutdown. It hasn't garnered a whole lot of headlines. There's been some other stuff

going on that's really kind of taking up a lot of of headlines. There's been some other stuff going on that's really

kind of taking up a lot of the headlines. But the DHS has really gone through a lot in the last

couple of weeks, hasn't it? Christy Noem got quote unquote fired or reassigned and there's a new

incoming Department of Homeland Security Secretary. And of course, the partial government shutdown has been all

about DHS funding. And I think that for the most part, it's been easy for Americans to ignore that.

There's not something that the DHS does that touches my daily life that's been disrupted.

Until now, because if you're flying and you've got a four or five hour long TSA wait,

that all of a sudden becomes a problem.

And here's where it's also going to be a problem, too, is because the 435 members of

Congress fly back and forth to Washington, D.C. from their home districts all the time.

And they're in those TSA lines too. So this may

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