{"id":140975,"date":"2026-03-17T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:04:08","slug":"2-tsa-checkpoints-at-philadelphia-airport-will-close-over-staffing-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140975\/","title":{"rendered":"2 TSA checkpoints at Philadelphia airport will close over staffing shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport<\/a> will close starting Wednesday due to TSA staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

The checkpoints at Terminals A-West and F will temporarily close Wednesday, with A-West closing at 5 a.m. and F closing at 4:30 a.m. There is no indication when they will reopen, according to an airport spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The Terminal C checkpoint, which was closed<\/a> Thursday, will remain closed as well. Only the TSA security checkpoints are closed; the terminals themselves are open for flights.<\/p>\n

Travelers can use the Terminal A-East, B, and D\/E checkpoints to get through security. Check live wait times for TSA checkpoints at phl.org<\/a>. PreCheck passengers can use the PreCheck lanes at the A-East and D\/E checkpoints.<\/p>\n

Airports across the country have been experiencing staff shortages<\/a> due to the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security amid a funding impasse. As Congress debates the department\u2019s budget, agencies like TSA are operating without funding. Some smaller airports may even have to shut down<\/a>, an unidentified official for President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration told Reuters.<\/p>\n

In January, federal lawmakers narrowly avoided another full government shutdown by approving budgets for all federal agencies except the Department of Homeland Security<\/a>. Republicans<\/a> and Trump agreed to carve out the DHS budget for further negotiations as Democrats<\/a> want to put more guardrails<\/a> on federal immigration enforcement, such as \u201cdemasking\u201d U.S. Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement agents and prohibiting \u201croving\u201d patrols.<\/p>\n

Legislators have made a few attempts to pass the Homeland Security budget, but neither side has budged<\/a> on its demands. The only Senate Democrat<\/a> to have supported funding the agency is Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats have sent a new counteroffer<\/a> to Trump and GOP lawmakers, and await a response. In the meantime, the lapse in funding will continue to cause the staff shortages plaguing the country\u2019s airports, including Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at Philadelphia International Airport will close starting Wednesday due to TSA staffing shortages.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,64584],"class_list":{"0":"post-140975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-tsa-philadelphia-airport-government-shutdown-staffing-shortage-wait-times"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}