{"id":26138,"date":"2025-10-29T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:06:10","slug":"el-paso-mayor-breaks-tie-vote-on-motion-to-review-tsa-airport-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/26138\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso mayor breaks tie vote on motion to review TSA airport video"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM<\/a>) \u2013 A motion before the El Paso City Council to direct the city manager and attorney to review agreements with the Transportation Security Administration in response to a controversial video playing inside the El Paso International Airport failed Tuesday after a tie-breaking vote by Mayor Renard Johnson.<\/p>\n

The measure, which aimed to explore a possible Memorandum of Understanding or a lease agreement to align TSA checkpoint operations with City of El Paso policies ended in a tie. Johnson\u2019s no vote broke the tie, stopping the proposal.<\/p>\n

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During Tuesday\u2019s city council meeting, Johnson acknowledged the video recorded by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, but said the city had already made several attempts to have it removed without success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a prime example of when you have conflict between federal, state, and local groups,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI sent a letter to the TSA director requesting that the video be taken down, and I got the same response as the city manager and city attorney. It\u2019s in an area that\u2019s controlled by TSA\u201d<\/p>\n

Controversial DHS video stays at El Paso Airport TSA despite takedown request <\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson also noted that the Hatch Act does not apply to the President, Vice President, Cabinet officers or members of Congress, nor to employees or certain agencies like the FBI CIA or National Security Council in specific roles, making the city\u2019s ability to intervene limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s prudent to spend the city\u2019s money, our taxpayer dollars, to have our city manager and city attorney trying to get them to remove a video and get the same response that we already got,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d rather spend some of these resources on fixing potholes and pulling weeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, the city of El Paso posted a sign informing travelers it didn\u2019t support the \u201cTSA controlled video\u201d on display.<\/p>\n

DHS Sec. Noem\u2019s airport video sparks concerns from El Paso city representatives <\/a><\/p>\n

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In the video, Noem says the TSA\u2019s \u201ctop priority\u201d is to help make travel pleasant and efficient while keeping passengers safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted, and most of our TSA employees are working without pay,\u201d Noem adds.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s motion would have also required a full review of existing documents, security clearances, and a report to council within 60 days.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2013 A motion before the El Paso City Council to direct the city manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18300,16900,4092,138,140,1110,139,6058,3499,27,4093,4024,2459],"class_list":["post-26138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-city-attorney","tag-city-manager","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-international-airport","tag-el-paso-news","tag-kristi-noem","tag-renard-johnson","tag-texas","tag-transportation-security-administration","tag-tsa","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}