{"id":170004,"date":"2026-03-21T03:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:36:09","slug":"selfish-dems-need-to-fix-the-unsafe-long-airport-lines-and-fund-the-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170004\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfish Dems need to fix the unsafe, long airport lines and fund the TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every one of the tens of thousands of Americans stuck in endless security lines at airports should know who to blame: Democrats in Congress who think your suffering is a small price to pay for showing their elite donors that they\u2019re \u201cdoing something\u201d about ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Not that this insanity\u00a0actually\u00a0impacts immigration enforcement:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/20\/us-news\/a-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dems refuse<\/a>\u00a0to fund Homeland Security, but ICE and the Border Patrol still have plenty of cash thanks to billions authorized last year.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t matter: Big-money leftists want someone to suffer \u2014 and stopping paychecks for TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA and a few other agencies is the best that Democrats can manage.<\/p>\n<p>So these workers \u2014 already shafted by Dems\u2019 larger government shutdown last year \u2014 get reamed.<\/p>\n<p>Some pull sickouts; some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/15\/us-news\/air-aggedon-flyer-chaos-rages-as-300-tsa-officers-quit-while-dems-refuse-budget-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">just quit<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and the security lines get longer and longer, right\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/19\/us-news\/spring-break-travelers-face-hourslong-airport-security-lines-risk-of-airport-closures-with-no-end-in-sight-for-dem-dhs-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">as Spring Break kicks<\/a>\u00a0into high gear and Easter school breaks approach.<\/p>\n<p>Agents haven\u2019t been paid for 35 days; their big troubles paying the bills are only beginning.<\/p>\n<p>So the lines will be getting worse \u2014 and some smaller airports will have to shut down entirely soon.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the\u00a0other\u00a0big issue: Homeland Security\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/16\/opinion\/dems-dhs-shutdown-is-boosting-us-terror-risks-and-sparking-utter-chaos-at-airports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">being crippled<\/a>\u00a0while the nation\u2019s at war with a country that\u2019s been sponsoring global terrorism for the last half-century.<\/p>\n<p>All this, thanks to a party that claims to stand for the little guy \u2014 but in fact answers to a woke donor class and the campus progressives who set today\u2019s Democratic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Only a handful of Senate Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/16\/opinion\/chuck-schumers-shutdown-gambit-gets-riskier-by-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">need to wake up<\/a>\u00a0to reality and buck Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to stop this madness; it\u2019s inevitable that the impasse will end without the party achieving a thing except appeasing its donors.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, every Dem in Congress knows this, yet nearly all are still afraid to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how far the party of Andrew Jackon, FDR and JFK has fallen: It\u2019d be pathetic if it weren\u2019t so outrageous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every one of the tens of thousands of Americans stuck in endless security lines at airports should know&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3347,128,2132,2300,304,9,24,63,299,129,131,130,3367],"class_list":["post-170004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-airports","tag-bronx","tag-democrats","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-editorial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}