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Trump proposes to cut 9,400 TSA workers, $1.5 billion from budget (www.reuters.com)
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The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the ​60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget ‌documents.

The details were part of a budget document for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TSA, that is part of the White House budget proposal for the next fiscal year.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The TSA is largely performative, but if they keep the same requirements and just have far fewer people responsible for doing the work then the long lines we have now are here to stay.

It's like when people want to cut the IRS's budget. It doesn't mean you pay less tax, it means you wait on the phone longer when you try to resolve an issue.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With the IRS, it was shown that at lower staffing levels, they don’t have the resources to audit large tax cheats like billionaires, just middle annd lower income folk. So I imagine they would be super happy to reduce IRS headcount.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is why I support cutting down the IRS. In 258,983 ywar when I earn my first Billion working my 9-5, I can more easily avoid paying taxes.

/s

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

The thing is though, a poorly executing IRS is good for tax companies, and one could argue most businesses in general. A poorly executing tsa however is disastrous for airlines and one could argue also for businesses in general.

Nonetheless, tsa never should have existed in the first place. Eurozone does it through contractors and it works well.