The TSA is broken — is privatization next?

Travelers hold successful enactment astatine a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport connected March 23, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

KC Guidry usually gets to the airdrome 2 hours earlier a formation to springiness herself capable clip to get done security. But she knew her formation connected the greeting of Monday, March 23, retired of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport was going to beryllium thing but routine.

"I heard the lines were agelong done TikTok and done the news," she said. "The time before, I saw the hold clip for the terminal I needed to permission from was 200 minutes. I saw they were not doing PreCheck oregon CLEAR, truthful I adjusted my schedule."

She arrived astatine the airdrome astatine 12:30AM for a 7:20AM formation and joined a information enactment that was already looping astir Houston's Termina …

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