When you’re waiting in line at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints, there are typically some TV screens with a video message from a government official. Along those lines, a new video has just been introduced, and it’s probably the most unusual one we’ve seen.
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Controversial new video playing at TSA checkpoints
It’s normal for the United States Secretary of Homeland Security to be featured in videos at TSA checkpoints. For example, up until this spring, there was a video reminding people of the REAL ID deadline (and for once, it was actually implemented).
Well, a brand new video has just been rolled out, and it’s not quite as apolitical as the above one. The government has been shut down since the beginning of the month, meaning most federal works aren’t being paid.
At some point, this starts to cause staffing issues in the aviation ecosystem, since many people can’t afford to come to work if they’re not getting a paycheck. So Noem addresses this in a new clip that’s now playing at TSA checkpoints. She explains that many operations are impacted by the government shutdown, and makes sure to place blame on Democrats, twice.
Here’s the content of the video:
“Hi, I’m Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. It is TSA’s top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience possible while we keep you safe. However, 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. We will continue to do all that we can to avoid delays that will impact your travel, and our hope is that Democrats will soon recognize the importance of opening the government.”
This is the most partisan video we’ve seen at TSA checkpoints
We don’t need to debate who is responsible for the shutdown (is it the Democrats for not funding the government, or the Republicans for not negotiating?), because that’s beyond the purview of this blog, and no one is going to change anyone else’s minds in the comments section.
However, I think this video is interesting on a few levels. First of all, most of us travel with some frequency, so we’re going to start to see this video, whether we’d like to or not. It’s the most noteworthy video I ever recall seeing at a TSA checkpoint.
The only other thing that I’ll say is this — historically, the TSA has been a pretty non-partisan organization. Of course that’s how it should be, and that’s a good thing. We even saw the TSA Administrator appointed in 2017 (in Trump’s first term) reconfirmed by Biden.
Personally, I think this kind of public blame at TSA checkpoints is a bit much. For the record, I’d be saying exactly the same thing if Biden were president, if the Republicans “shut down” the government, and a similar message were being presented with the opposite narrative.
I just think these TSA checkpoint videos should be limited to providing useful information to travelers about… well, whatever… rather than trying to place political blame on others. But I also understand the era we live in, so it’s hardly the most surprising thing we’ve seen.
Lastly, it’s interesting how the video has no hint of apology. Not even a “sorry for any delays you may experience,” without accepting any blame, or anything.
Bottom line
There’s a new video screening at TSA checkpoints, showing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem explaining that the government shutdown may impact aviation. While there’s always a video playing at TSA checkpoints, we’ve never seen a video quite like this, so maybe look up while you’re standing in line at security to see it for yourself…
The Trump Administration doesn't believe the law applies to them and the GOP controlled Congress is so cowed they won't even stand up for their own rights as the legislative body of the US. Moreover, we have a Supreme Court complicit with Trump and they refuse to require Trump of follow the Constitution and laws of the US.
Laws ? What laws?
Lol the party that controls all three branches of government is blaming the minority party. If they hadn't already blown their reconciliation vote on Trump's Small Flaccid Bill they wouldn't be in this mess. Unfortunately your average Fox News viewer will lap this up.
PS: People who shoot dogs should be fired... into the sun.
Ugh, how do these brainless hillbillies keep getting appointed to high public office in the United States?
Elections have consequences.
Because most Americans are uneducated hillbillies?
@Jessica elite arrogant elitists such as yourself are exactly why us uneducated hillbillies swept the last election. A bit of humility and an understanding that all people from all walks of life are what make our country tick may be good, perhaps?
Calling brainless people "brainless" makes them elite?
Sorry, I find it difficult to find common ground with racist, homophobic, misanthropic corrupt criminals. Calling them brainless is demeaning to brainless people.
Way to use public infrastructure for partisan talking points. But those are the times we live in. You can't fix the problem, so blame others instead. No wonder our country is languishing.
What's astonishing to me is that anyone in the TSA is still showing up for work when her boss outright said that federal employees won't be paid for the time they are working for free.
Look at government websites like Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) for even more extreme content. This is the worst of what America has ever stood for.
Puppy killer is wrong.
The Hatch Act is just another law to be ignored by MAGA. The justice system only works in favor of this ruling administration. The rest of us are simply expendable.
Why do people who formerly hated big government suddenly love it and think it can do no wrong?
She’s just stating the facts.
These are some of the things the Democrats are demanding we fund:
- $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia
- $833k for transgender people in Nepal
- $4.2 million for lgbtq people in the Western Balkans and Uganda
- $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti
- $500k for electric buses in Rwanda
-...
She’s just stating the facts.
These are some of the things the Democrats are demanding we fund:
- $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia
- $833k for transgender people in Nepal
- $4.2 million for lgbtq people in the Western Balkans and Uganda
- $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti
- $500k for electric buses in Rwanda
- $6 million for media organizations for the Palestinians
- $300k for a pride parade in Lesotho
- $882k for social media and mentorship in Serbia
Spare me, Trump just gave $20 billion to bail out Argentina; I don’t see you whining about that. Part of American power is building goodwill with other people around the world - it’s what we have always done and should continue to do.
Money being given to LGBTQ, and. pride parades !!
We didn’t vote for that!
Who's this we? I specifically voted for that. Too bad if you didn't, but you're a bigoted MAGAtt.
Firstly Martin, when you say “we didn’t vote for that” who are you referring to? Plenty of gay Americans vote so very likely, yes, they did vote for LGBTQ people to be supported. Secondly, I don’t believe any federal funds are going to Pride parades in the US.
I would perhaps take a visit to Snopes... before stating such things as fact.
What's wrong with any of that, you homophobic breeder?
@Martin O'Connor, Ok, can I get a link? Anything published by a democratic lawmaker, or video of a democratic lawmaker, calling for this? Otherwise this is just you spouting off. The last I had heard, the Democrats were holding out for an extension of subsidies for health insurance, which by the way, only applies to those legally in the country.
So by legally you are no doubt including those that are awaiting 10 yrs for their erroneous asylum claims as well a parolees or those on TPS…..they are very much eligible for for those health insurance subsidies which is what the Democrats are holding out for.
This is all your BS!
Please cite sources.
German has a great word to describe your post, Martin: Quatsch.
Saw that vid at JFK the other day. Flipped her the bird. Several others in line did so too. Felt great. F-ing fascists the lot of those MAGAts.
If they were fascists you’d be arrested for that. If that made you “feel good” you have some deeper issues to deal with.
Well, in 1933 you were able to do things in Nazi Germany that you were not able to do in 1939 anymore.
They are fascists, and perhaps I will be arrested for flipping her the bird, though I am not sure under what law I will be charged. Do you? It maybe feel good, and the others in the TSA line, because we were speaking truth to power. The deep issue I am dealing with is a love of the US and the Constitution and the freedoms being eroded daily by the Grifter-in-Chief and his minions. Hope to see you at the No Kings March!
Don't worry, they'll make something up to arrest you.
Does anyone remember Tulsi Gabbard when the Biden Administration actually weaponized the TSA against our own American citizens through “Quiet Skies.”
If you where being segregated out for secondary and more intensive screenings almost every time you went through security checkpoints as I was for a while, well you definitely can NOT call the Democrats none Partisan with their manipulation of the TSA malicious screenings of loyal Veterans and Americans.
I think it’s great Kristi...
Does anyone remember Tulsi Gabbard when the Biden Administration actually weaponized the TSA against our own American citizens through “Quiet Skies.”
If you where being segregated out for secondary and more intensive screenings almost every time you went through security checkpoints as I was for a while, well you definitely can NOT call the Democrats none Partisan with their manipulation of the TSA malicious screenings of loyal Veterans and Americans.
I think it’s great Kristi is making the public aware the people at the TSA may be going unpaid so be patient and kind with the TSA during this time. Way to go Noem.
Gabbard was subject to extra scrutiny due to her behaviors
"In 2017, while still a member of Congress, Gabbard took an unannounced trip to Syria and met with its authoritarian leader, Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of war crimes. This drew widespread condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans, who argued she was legitimizing a brutal dictator. Gabbard defended the trip, stating that U.S. leaders should be willing to meet with adversaries in the pursuit...
Gabbard was subject to extra scrutiny due to her behaviors
"In 2017, while still a member of Congress, Gabbard took an unannounced trip to Syria and met with its authoritarian leader, Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of war crimes. This drew widespread condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans, who argued she was legitimizing a brutal dictator. Gabbard defended the trip, stating that U.S. leaders should be willing to meet with adversaries in the pursuit of peace."
PDX is refusing to air these.
Well perhaps PDX should lose some airport funding maybe?
Can someone please make the call! Thanks for sharing!
Airport refused to air government propaganda that blatantly violates the law (Hatch Act) and you want to pull their funding? I remember when you folks were the party who couldn’t stop sucking dick over the thought of “law and order” and opposed to government overreach.
Good for PDX! Resistance is not futile.
SeaTac has just announced that they will not be airing them either.
No, we don’t need to debate the politics of the government shutdown. Republicans, who are in the majority of both houses, could by a simple majority vote do away with the need for the current supermajority requirement to end debate.
That is all that would be needed. Senate Republicans vote 51-49 or 50-50 with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. Then they could hold an immediate vote to end debate, then another immediate vote to...
No, we don’t need to debate the politics of the government shutdown. Republicans, who are in the majority of both houses, could by a simple majority vote do away with the need for the current supermajority requirement to end debate.
That is all that would be needed. Senate Republicans vote 51-49 or 50-50 with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. Then they could hold an immediate vote to end debate, then another immediate vote to reopen the government.
Alternately, Senate Republicans could schedule 30 hours of debate mandated by the current supermajority rules. Once those 30 hours of debate have expired, then the Senate Republicans could hold an immediate vote with only a simple majority (or the Vice President to break a tie) because the need for debate would have been satisfied.
So, no, let us not debate this. Let us acknowledge that the majority party can very very easily pass this legislation. They will not, because they are already being murdered in polling and are wholly desperate to drag at least a handful of Democrats down with them.
Privatize
No, dissolve. Agency should never have been created.
Get rid of the DHS altogether and revert everything back pre-9/11.
If you're in line in front of me at TSA do not hold up the line watching a propaganda video.
Every time I see your name, I think of George W. Romney (Mitt Romney's dad) lol
Ha. I always think the same thing
If the video simply apologized for any delay and asked for the traveler's patients during this time, that is fine.
As for democrat or republican blame. If either party had control of all three (Senate, House, and Presidency), the party that did not have any control would do what ever they could to promote what they thought is important.
This is why I prefer to have one party always in control of one of the three, it gives all citizens a voice.
I know the dog shooter ain’t preaching.
Where exactly are these monitors? I can’t think of a single security checkpoint I’ve been through in recent times with these. Am I just immune to noticing them?
Good question. They don’t have these that I can think of at any of the airports I frequent - MCI (which isn’t TSA anyway), LAX T4/5, Can’t recall seeing them at DFW, BOS, or SEA either. Or maybe I just travel so much I don’t pay any attention.
They have them at RDU but they’re small and above the ID checkpoints with very high ceilings and out of line of sight for most people unless you’re bored enough to look up.
We have to recognize that the Democrat politicians have their own extreme, anti-democratic political agenda, NO common sense to all hardworking American taxpayers, who intrinsically deserve that our taxes primarily benefit Americans, including TSA employees, not billions and billions have been spent on illegals since the Biden era. The Democrats basically holding our airport security employees hostage as they rather fund illegals just as they did during the Biden time for open border to destroy...
We have to recognize that the Democrat politicians have their own extreme, anti-democratic political agenda, NO common sense to all hardworking American taxpayers, who intrinsically deserve that our taxes primarily benefit Americans, including TSA employees, not billions and billions have been spent on illegals since the Biden era. The Democrats basically holding our airport security employees hostage as they rather fund illegals just as they did during the Biden time for open border to destroy this country and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on hotels, airfare, Medicaid... for illegals. Democrats literally are lawless and have a political agenda like authoritarianism and communism.
Clearly someone’s brain has been completely pickled in Fox News brine.
Yawn. These Trump bootlicking comments have become so boring, the same old nonsense repeated endlessly.
How does it feel to be wrong about literally everything?
If forced to pick between the current immature administration pushing propaganda where it doesn’t belong and the previous administration with special TSA lines for “Non-US Citizens without Passports” funneling unknown persons onto planes, it’s easy to select the former. It’s harder to know the latter situation existed because it wasn’t really reported on.
Can you provide proof of this? In all my years of traveling I never once saw any such TSA lane in any of the 20+ airports I went to.
Completely made-up rightwing slop.
Gentlemen, please google image search “Non-US Citizens without Passports”
These were up during the Biden years at near-border airports, as seen frequently by myself. The fact that you haven’t seen this before just proves my point. The mainstream media turned their back on this, and Fox News isn’t smart enough and/or doesn’t have the resources to cover everything for one side.
Wow the lies we tell.
nypost.com/2024/01/19/news/are-migrants-allowed-to-board-us-flights-without-id/
x.com/thomasopeters/status/1764818025000398877
Non citizens without passports lane. You on drugs?
Yeah it’s called truth serum. You should try some.
nypost.com/2024/01/19/news/are-migrants-allowed-to-board-us-flights-without-id/
x.com/thomasopeters/status/1764818025000398877
Nope that was actually a Biden era thing in at least Tucson where I flew through regularly…. That’s how ridiculous things got under the last administration.
Just spit balling here, but maybe it wasn't reported on because it didn't happen?
Google is free Michael.
@Sel D: Did you know green card holders don't need a passport to enter the US? only their green card.
"United States LPRs do not need a passport to enter the United States as per 8 CFR 211.1(a)" https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article1287
And those LPRs don't even need a passport book to travel to other countries, especially in situations not involving a plane.
Yes those signs existed, but perhaps if you empty your biases a little you would...
@Sel D: Did you know green card holders don't need a passport to enter the US? only their green card.
"United States LPRs do not need a passport to enter the United States as per 8 CFR 211.1(a)" https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article1287
And those LPRs don't even need a passport book to travel to other countries, especially in situations not involving a plane.
Yes those signs existed, but perhaps if you empty your biases a little you would realize they can be for purposes other than nefarious ones you imagine.
Yes but this was in the TSA security line, nothing to do with entering the country. Everything to do with providing a valid ID which a Permanent Resident Card sufficed (back before Real ID during the Biden era) which incidentally a green card holder is required to have with them AT ALL TIMES. Perhaps if you emptied your biases you might be able to comprehend your explanation is a red herring and these lines had nothing to do with LPRs.
Ah that explains it. If it's for TSA, there's an even longer list of non-passport IDs that even non-citizens and non-LPRs can use to travel domestically. In fact, it just so happens that I'm currently flying using such a document (an Employment Authorization Doc) because my green card is on the way and that is sufficient evidence of my legal status without needing to carry a passport. It even counts as a REAL ID nowadays.
...Ah that explains it. If it's for TSA, there's an even longer list of non-passport IDs that even non-citizens and non-LPRs can use to travel domestically. In fact, it just so happens that I'm currently flying using such a document (an Employment Authorization Doc) because my green card is on the way and that is sufficient evidence of my legal status without needing to carry a passport. It even counts as a REAL ID nowadays.
Yes empty your biases, because there are plenty use cases of legal immigrants falling into the category of the sign.
For traveling domestically to go through TSA, someone who's legal can still use a document listed on the CBP website that's not a passport. They may not be citizens but doesn't mean they are undocumented. In fact you just answered your own question. Since a green card holder has to have the card with them at all times, if they don't have their passport with them won't they have to go through this exact line to fly and use their green card as ID?
Wasn’t the non-US citizens without passports line just for people who were going through the citizenship or green card process and had a US travel document that allowed them to travel prior to them getting an actual passport?
@James: Yes exactly. Funnily enough I'm in this exact situation right now and I guess I would have went in that line! And I'm very much a legal alien in the US (from the UK).
In fact for traveling domestically, there's a huge list of non-passport docs one can use to go through the TSA that non-citizens are perfectly eligible to have and use: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification
Yes. I have a friend who processed these.
But we shouldn't let a fact get in the way of propaganda. The MAGA people aren't interested in facts. They just want to own the libs, as they continue to pillage and plunder for the rich.
Facts? Once again, Google is free. These lines were only during the Biden administration with a massive influx of people, using the CBP One app as “identification” to get through TSA. The practice is now banned. It was unique to his administration and not business as usual, had nothing to do with green cards, etc.
Cite your source here, Sel, or shut up.
@TravelinPenis WILL be triggered. Guaranteed.
I wonder if the screeners that work at SPP airports are getting paid. Presumably their employers are not getting their funding at the moment.
ICE Barbie should stick to shagging mouth breathing Corey L
I consider myself a center right guy politically. She has become the IBM of the Apple 1984 ad. People don’t want to be subjected to government propaganda on why they are in a longer line while waiting in the longer line. Just fix the problem and fund the government.
@Justin
Then why the f@@k did you listen to Barack Obama announcements at ORD for a decade ?
Let’s stop the Chucky Schumer gov’t shut down and spend $1.5 trillion on illegals. Yeah no.
You have shown your ignorance and racism on these blogs for a decade…now we are seeing your abject stupidity too
Yes, the Democrats have NO common sense and anti-hardworking taxpayer Americans who deserve that our taxes benefits Americans, including TSA employees. The Democrats basically holding our airport security employees hostage as they rather fund illegals just as they did during the Biden time for open border to destroy this country and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on hotels, airfare, Medicaid... Democrats literally are lawless and have a political agenda like authoritarianism and communism.
Yes, the Democrats have NO common sense and anti-hardworking taxpayer Americans who deserve that our taxes benefits Americans, including TSA employees. The Democrats basically holding our airport security employees hostage as they rather fund illegals just as they did during the Biden time for open border to destroy this country and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on hotels, airfare, Medicaid... Democrats literally are lawless and have a political agenda like authoritarianism and communism.
Save your ignorant posts for fox news. You are not welcomed here.
As I've said below, they don't want to fix the problem because it works to their advantage! Look what Schumer keeps saying, it keeps getting better for the D (pause) by the day. Johnson says it's the fault of the other side. It's easier to do nothing and blame the other side rather than fix the problem.
And I don't lean in any particular direction, but politicians I have high regard for would be...
As I've said below, they don't want to fix the problem because it works to their advantage! Look what Schumer keeps saying, it keeps getting better for the D (pause) by the day. Johnson says it's the fault of the other side. It's easier to do nothing and blame the other side rather than fix the problem.
And I don't lean in any particular direction, but politicians I have high regard for would be Bill Clinton, VP Rockefeller. Unfortunately those days are gone with the fringes controlling their side. I vote based on pragmatism and who would be best to do the job rather than ideology.
I hope nobody brings a dog through a TSA checkpoint while this video is playing...
Unfortunately they rather not fix the problem because it works to their advantage. Think of the border, they rather not fix it because if they do, they have nothing to run on.
I was watching CUOMO and it's sad that the military had to wait on line at a food pantry because of this shutdown. Think about that, a food pantry.
Back to the video, isn't that a violation of the Hatch Act? Unfortunately everything...
Unfortunately they rather not fix the problem because it works to their advantage. Think of the border, they rather not fix it because if they do, they have nothing to run on.
I was watching CUOMO and it's sad that the military had to wait on line at a food pantry because of this shutdown. Think about that, a food pantry.
Back to the video, isn't that a violation of the Hatch Act? Unfortunately everything is hyper partisan these days and nothing seems to get better.
And to the bloke below who said the U.S. is a weird country, I don't know where you're from, and I don't blame you mate. A country obsessed with guns, who can't take care of its people properly, its government so dysfunctional, its people have anger issues and the list goes on and on.
Why would the military be waiting at a food pantry, they have yet to miss a paycheck.
Not just the military, but their families.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/10/09/food-pantry-visits-military-families-climb-over-30-government-shutdown-began.html
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/military-families-turn-food-pantries-government-shut-down-continues
Even POTUS has posted it on their social media page.
It's a sad sight to watch, members of the military waiting in line at a food pantry. And both sides continue to blame the other side.
And again do you recognize the not a single paycheck has been missed yet?
Yes I do. And the rent is usually do at the first of the month. With plenty of service members and their families living paycheck to paycheck, that money goes to the rent with very little money left over.
Due*
They just got partial pay for the non October days. So either in accounts on this past Friday or will be Tuesday.
Issue for Military families is that unless you are an officer, the enlisted, don't make much. Granted knowing I didn't earn much money, I wouldn't marry or have child(ren) but thats just me.
The Hatch Act is a law. This is illegal. Federal officials cannot conduct policy in their official position using government property or channels. You cannot be for law and order while choosing which congressionally passed laws you want to follow. Republicans have control of every federal branch and can pass the budget on their own using a filibuster change (which they’ve already used on other things). They can open the government any time they want....
The Hatch Act is a law. This is illegal. Federal officials cannot conduct policy in their official position using government property or channels. You cannot be for law and order while choosing which congressionally passed laws you want to follow. Republicans have control of every federal branch and can pass the budget on their own using a filibuster change (which they’ve already used on other things). They can open the government any time they want. They don’t want to seat the 218th vote to release the Epstein files.
If you’re ok with this video, you do not stand for law and order, regardless of your politics.
Unfortunately, it has become clear that illegal activities are not of particular concern to most government officials.
What's the point of a law if there are no repercussions if one violates the law? The guy in the White House had a campaign event at the White House his last term, and nothing. Emoluments clauses get casually broken. Perfect example would be the Qatar 748. Nothing.
Who cares anymore! I wouldn't waste my time and the media shouldn't as well.
totally unqualified. no business in the position she's occupying, just like anyone in the present administration.
B**** needs to focus on keeping track of her purse
By your definition "is it the Democrats for not funding the government, or the Republicans for not negotiating".
If you are not funding it you are shutting it down.
Just returned from a 10-day business trip in the US. What a weird country…
LOL...........what a sh*tshow we are becoming.
"LOL...........what a sh*tshow we are becoming."
have become.