{"id":191852,"date":"2026-03-14T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:34:10","slug":"long-tsa-lines-at-fort-lauderdale-airport-amid-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191852\/","title":{"rendered":"Long TSA lines at Fort Lauderdale airport amid government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM<\/p>\n<p>Travelers react as TSA lines stretch outside Fort Lauderdale airport <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Long TSA lines formed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday as staffing shortages tied to the partial government shutdown slowed security checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At Terminal 1, the TSA line stretched outside the building as passengers waited to get through security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The delays come as many federal workers under the Department of Homeland Security &#8212; including officers with the Transportation Security Administration &#8212; continue working without pay during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey actually need to be paid,\u201d said traveler Helen Samuels from Chicago. \u201cIf they come to work they should get their full pay because they have families too. If the government is not hungry, why should the people working be hungry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some travelers said the ongoing shutdown is unfair to TSA workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think it\u2019s terrible that people have to work without being paid,\u201d said Heather Exner, who was flying to Wisconsin. \u201cI don\u2019t understand why the government shutdown. What do we pay taxes for? Get to work. I have to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials say the shutdown has already led hundreds of TSA agents to leave their jobs nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, airport officials said United Way of Broward County is partnering with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a food drive to help <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wheels-senate-democrats-who-leave-tsa-and-americans-grounded\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wheels-senate-democrats-who-leave-tsa-and-americans-grounded\">TSA workers impacted<\/a> by the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Samiar Nefzi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/9dfe9245-12b2-40be-bc.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Samiar Nefzi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Samiar Nefzi joined the Local 10 News team in August of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM Travelers react as TSA lines stretch outside Fort Lauderdale airport FORT LAUDERDALE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-191852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191852","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=191852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}