When Will Congress Finally Pass Funding for TSA's Airport Screeners?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
| 0:11.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:24.4 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. |
| 0:25.0 | Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:38.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:47.6 | Do you have any spring break travel plans? If you do, good luck and be sure to get to the airport three or more hours before flight time. Chaos rains at airport check-ins around the country as the impasse over funding |
| 0:56.6 | for the Department of Homeland Security, and thus TSA continues, will it ever end? Plus, the Trump |
| 1:05.5 | administration floats a supplemental defense spending bill of upwards of $200 billion to pay for the Iran War. |
| 1:13.6 | And more than that, to replenish U.S. munitions stocks. Will Congress go along? |
| 1:19.6 | Those are our subjects for today on Potomac Watch. Welcome. I'm Paul as you go here with my colleagues, Kate Batchelder-Odell and Kim Strassel. So hopefully neither of you are |
| 1:29.3 | flying anytime soon. The lines, by the way, at LaGuardia and JFK here in NYC have been just awful. |
| 1:37.1 | And then we had that terrible accident at LaGuardia, where it's now shut down as we speak. |
| 1:41.9 | And then another episode at Newark, which also decided to |
| 1:45.6 | shut down today. So the only way to get into the city, I guess, is JFK, could take you a day or two. |
| 1:53.2 | So let's start with the TSA Mass Transportation Safety Administration and airports. |
| 1:59.0 | Agents aren't getting paid because Congress hasn't funded their department. |
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