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Speaker 1: Well, travelers has become collateral damage. This because TSA lines

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Speaker 1: are getting super long. Some airports are saying give yourself

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Speaker 1: four to five hours to get through security. Yikes. This

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Speaker 1: because of the funding that has lapsed. Agents are working

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Speaker 1: without pay and there's lots of staffing shortages. So you've

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Speaker 1: got the Department of Homeland Security has been in that

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Speaker 1: mid shutdown since the middle of February. Congress still deadlocked

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Speaker 1: over immigration policies, and these TSA agents that are considered

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Speaker 1: essential their keep on working even when they're not getting paid,

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Speaker 1: but they're taking a little bit longer to get you

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Speaker 1: through security.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think most Americans probably forget that we're operating

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Speaker 2: under a partial government shutdown. It hasn't garnered a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of headlines. There's been some other stuff going on

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Speaker 2: that's really kind of taking up a lot of the headlines.

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Speaker 2: But the DHS has really gone through a lot in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, hasn't it. Christy Nome got

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Speaker 2: quote unquote fired or reassigned, and there's a new incoming

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Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security secretary, And of course the partial

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Speaker 2: government shutdown has been all about DHS funding, and I

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Speaker 2: think that for the most part, it's been easy for

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Speaker 2: Americans to ignore that there's not something that the DHS

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Speaker 2: does that touches my daily life that's been disrupted until now.

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Speaker 2: Because if you're flying and you've got a four or

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Speaker 2: five hour long TSA wait, that all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: becomes a problem. And here's where it's also going to

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Speaker 2: be a problem too, is because the four hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty five members of Congress fly back and forth to Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. From their home districts all the time, and

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Speaker 2: they're in those TSA lines too. So this may actually

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Speaker 2: be something that gets Congress to act and get rid

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Speaker 2: of this partial government shutdown, because those lawmakers are going

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Speaker 2: to be sitting in the same lines and suffering the

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Speaker 2: same pain that you are.

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Speaker 1: And it's hitting right when a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: going to be trying to try for spring break, millions

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Speaker 1: of passengers moving through the airports, and you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people want to go take a quick vacation.

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Speaker 1: Spring break just gonna get even worse.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't sit here and say, well, I've

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Speaker 2: got TSA PreCheck, so that's not gonna be a problem

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Speaker 2: for me. No, the PreCheck lines were just as bad,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the next level up from there. Well,

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Speaker 2: I've got clear now. I saw a guy that posted

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Speaker 2: a video over the weekend and he was showing the

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Speaker 2: line for clear, and usually clear is I mean, And

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Speaker 2: I had it when I was traveling a lot there.

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Speaker 2: But I think the longest I ever waited in a

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Speaker 2: TSA line when I had CLEAR was maybe two or

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Speaker 2: three minutes at most. And I'm talking about these were

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Speaker 2: huge lines, and I waited two or three minutes. There

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Speaker 2: were reports that people with clear were waiting two and

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Speaker 2: three hours just to get through security this weekend.

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Speaker 1: So the dynamic becomes political leverage in Washington, operational strain

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Speaker 1: on workers, inconvenience for you, and that's always comes back

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Speaker 1: to you, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, but it's easy for us as Americans to just

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Speaker 2: kind of be able to go about our daily lives

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Speaker 2: without having these massive national crises from Washington affect us.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the war in Iran's peer and how has

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Speaker 2: it been affecting our daily lives. Well, for the first

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Speaker 2: several days of the war, nothing, And now what we're

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Speaker 2: seeing is gas prices start to go up. Okay, Now

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Speaker 2: that's going to get people talking because that's gonna put

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Speaker 2: pain on people's budgets every single month and again. Partial

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Speaker 2: government shutdown. What does that mean to me? No big deal,

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Speaker 2: I don't care if the government's partially shut down. Oh

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, all of a sudden, I missed my

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Speaker 2: flight because there's a four hour line for TSA. Things

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Speaker 2: are different now