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.

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    12 days ago

    My thoughts exactly. Why won’t he gradually replace all government workers with ICE agents? They can do whatever work is needed (poorly, not that they give a fuck–in fact they’ll claim the jobs were done poorly before so don’t blame ice if things don’t improve) while also detaining suspect people at their whims as well. For this administration it would seem like a win-win