{"id":21939,"date":"2026-04-27T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/over-1000-tsa-officers-have-quit-amid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:33:11","slug":"over-1000-tsa-officers-have-quit-amid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/over-1000-tsa-officers-have-quit-amid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 TSA officers have quit amid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 1,110 officers at the Transportation Security Administration have quit since the ongoing DHS shutdown began Feb. 14, a spokesperson told Blue Light News on Monday.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a sizable jump compared with a week ago, when DHS on April 20 said<\/a> that over 830 TSA personnel had departed the agency due to the record-breaking lapse in appropriations.<\/p>\n

The latest figure, first reported by Blue Light News, could have implications for this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June. The TSA spokesperson in a statement Monday said replacements need four to six months of training to \u201cperform regular airport duties.\u201d As of late March, there were about 50,000 TSA officers total, according to the White House.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin added that President Donald Trump via executive action has allowed DHS to \u201cgrab emergency funding\u201d from last year\u2019s GOP megalaw to pay department employees<\/a>, but that money will be exhausted if the shutdown continues into the first week of May.<\/p>\n

Should that occur, airport security lines could become snarled again, like they were earlier during the spending stalemate \u2014 which waylaid travelers across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> said Monday<\/a> that a Senate-passed bill to fund most of DHS, including TSA, will have to change to get the House\u2019s OK. That suggests there will be a further delay in reopening a large swath of the department.<\/p>\n

During last fall\u2019s 43-day federal shutdown, around 1,110 TSA officers left<\/a> the agency, a 25 percent increase in separations compared with the same time frame in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 1,110 officers at the Transportation Security Administration have quit since the ongoing DHS shutdown began Feb. 14, a spokesperson told Blue Light News on Monday. That\u2019s a sizable jump compared with a week ago, when DHS on April 20 said that over 830 TSA personnel had departed the agency due to the record-breaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}