{"id":159020,"date":"2026-02-17T22:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:58:06","slug":"partial-shutdown-hits-tsa-fema-coast-guard-in-fort-myers-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159020\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial shutdown hits TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard in Fort Myers | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS &#8211; The nation is facing another partial government shutdown, impacting thousands of workers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency are all working without pay.<\/p>\n<p>Just 12 weeks after a 43-day shutdown, TSA workers are again affected. DHS says only essential activities like law enforcement and maritime protection will continue during the funding lapse.<\/p>\n<p>A traveler said, &#8220;It&#8217;s really too bad to hear that these people aren&#8217;t going to get paid. And yeah, that&#8217;ll definitely be difficult for the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another traveler urged, &#8220;Anything that you want to say to our government about it? Um, get your act together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TSA workers will receive back pay once the shutdown ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS &#8211; The nation is facing another partial government shutdown, impacting thousands of workers across the country.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1993,76215,33603,76214,1598,3212],"class_list":{"0":"post-159020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-coast-guard","12":"tag-cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-agency","13":"tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","14":"tag-fort-myers-fort-myers","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-transportation-security-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}