Trump proposes to cut 9,400 TSA workers, $1.5 billion from budget

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/Reuters

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WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget documents.

The details were part of a budget document for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TSA, that is part of the White House budget proposal for the next fiscal year.

Congress will hold hearings on the White House budget request later this month as lawmakers aim to reach a new budget deal before the fiscal year ends on September 30. Some Republican lawmakers have pushed to privatize TSA completely. The budget details were unrelated to the funding impasse in Congress over DHS for the current year, which has caused airport delays as TSA workers went without paychecks.

President Donald Trump on Friday proposed requiring smaller airports to use private security in place of TSA as a first step toward privatizing the agency created after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The White House said this change would cut the TSA payroll by more than 4,500 jobs. The TSA proposes to cut another 4,800 jobs by improving efficiency, ending staffing at exit lanes and eliminating redundancies. The employee cuts would save more than $500 million in agency costs.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-proposes-to-cut-9-400-tsa-workers-1-5-billion-from-budget/ar-AA20hYES

[msongs]

1. same amount of work with 4800 less people to do it. will remainers get the 4800's pay?

[AZJonnie]

4. Presumably you're joking.

Of course not, they'll get paid less and have way shittier benefits, as they go to work for Donnie's & other RepuQ's connected buddies in the "private security" sphere

[LoisB]

2. Sounds like an invitation to aerial "mishaps" to me.

[iluvtennis]

3. Privatize is just a way for trump and his corporate pals to make money.

TSA budget should stay with him federal government and agents employed by gov, not some corporate entity.

[Hope22]

5. He knows access to fuel is going to get tighter and tighter.

Airlines are already cutting flights. Fewer flights, shorter lines. Killing the industry is hard work but he is working hard at it!

[QueerDuck]

6. Somewhere, the next Mohamed Atta and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are smiling and making their plans.

[Lonestarblue]

14. Most likely in Iran as this useless war is creating many people to hate the US

[QueerDuck]

16. Exactly... Trump has given them a "reason" and an "opportunity" to exploit our weakness to their advantage.

[ToxMarz]

7. The cost of TSA isn't the Govts problem, it is the taxpayers problem

Replacing them with 'private security' to save money for the govt costs taxpayers more (and most likely make them less safe). Of course Trump thinks the govt (and the Treasury) belongs to him, not the people.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Sure, it makes sense . . . . .

1. Fire the TSA workers.
2. Some guy(s) get on a plane and either hijack it or fly it into another building.
3. 9/11 Redux
4. Trump declares an "emergency" and invokes the Insurrection Act.
5. Trump cancels the November elections indefinitely.
6. The terms of all members of the House and some of the Senate expire. Only the Senate exists with about 3/4 of the Body.

Coupe, anyone?

[Bengus81]

9. It's right there in Project 2025. Fire everyone in the TSA,chaos ensues so of course

Government can't handles running it and it gets privatized. Some jackass friend of Trump gets a contract worth billions.

[Danascot]

10. So $1.5B funds one and a half days of the war in Iran?

or is it less than one and a half days?

[cbabe]

11. Union busting.

[Marthe48]

12. Usher in an era pedo hijackings

Hijackings used to be real headline grabbers. Pedo regime likes the retro vibe of preventable tragedy.

[Firestorm49]

13. And where is all of the $$$$$ going to go?

[sakabatou]

18. Into Dump's pockets to do something shitty

[Jvp]

15. Project 2025, the takeover by christian nationalist

Very dangerous!

[Vinca]

17. Guess his warped mind thinks long lines at airports are a positive.

I imagine lots of TSA agents have and will throw in the towel because this particular line of work isn't dependable when they're at the mercy of a maniac.

[Bluetus]

19. Dems should apply "The McConnell Doctrine"

Repeat after me:

This is a radical budget and the people did not vote for this kind of change. Therefore, we will not support any of these cuts until the people have a chance to vote in the November election.We will only support a CR of the current appropriation levels through next January, After the election, then we can talk.

[NowsTheTime]

20. WOW!!! 1.5 billion....That might cover the cost of an extra day of war....

[C Moon]

21. Everything he touches gets ruined.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Because privatization has worked so well in the past.

[ananda]

23. It's like every day we're living in a bad soap called The Liquidator.

Grrrr