TSA bans sitting for passport checks at U.S. airports
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- TSA officials are no longer allowed to sit while conducting passport checks at U.S. airports.
- The policy change is said to strengthen security and hospitality, and the agency says all employees must meet serviceability requirements for national security; it has sparked a new conflict in the Trump administration’s handling of TSA staff, who recently went six weeks without pay after a spring government shutdown, and follows a proposal to cut 9,400 TSA positions and reduce the annual budget by $1.5 billion, about 20% of its funding.
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