Elon Musk has offered to pay the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers during the ongoing partial government shutdown that is causing travel chaos nationwide. Wait times to pass security have stretched to more than two hours in some airports around the US after TSA workers’ pay was stopped, causing staffing shortages.
At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest in the world, lines reached up to 125 minutes on Saturday morning. In Houston, George Bush Intercontinental Airport saw delays of up to 150 minutes, while New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport topped 30 minutes.
TSA officers make about $50,000 per year on average, according to The New York Times. Musk, the richest man in the world, is valued at $814.3 billion. The partial government shutdown stems from a congressional deadlock over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees TSA.
As of Saturday morning, at least 1,350 delays and 80 cancelations had been reported across the country, according to FlightAware.
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It is people like Musk that need to pay more taxes. If Musk pays an extra $billion in taxes, $40,000 can be used for a TSA agent with the remaining $999,960,000 going to Learing and other Democrat Corruption Centers.
ReplyDeleteIt isn;t the lack of funds, it is that Congress is using the funding of DHS (which includes the TSA) to force the ICE and Border patrol agents to behave decently. I find it sad that you are that under informed that you think is about taxes.
DeleteHe should have said Trump supporters only.
ReplyDeleteElon paying the TSA workers out to send the left into a foaming at the mouth hissy fit. They WANT the shutdown in order to make life miserable for travelers. They think it will give them political leverage. No matter how much you may hate the Demonrats....it isn't enough.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is the managers and their bosses that allow the TSA agents to call off and get away with such a Job Acton without firing them. This is an illegal act and yet the agents are getting away with it when they should be fired (and jailed) for their illegal acts.
DeleteThey want the maximum amount of pain as a lever. If they could close and airport to get their funding, they would.
DeleteTrump should act, and like the Air Traffic controller's during Reagan's time, fire the lot of them.