The TSA website has a warning travelers should know about right now

About 50,000 TSA screeners are working without pay during the shutdown, leading to staffing shortages and massive security delays at some airports.

Airline passengers wait in long lines outside the terminal to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. [Photo: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images]

If you’re traveling soon, some grueling wait times at the airport may be in your future thanks to a partial government shutdown. But to make matters even more complicated, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is not currently updating its sites during the partial shutdown, meaning fliers can’t easily check TSA wait times........

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