Flyers face hourslong lines as TSA agents quit amid first weekend without full pay | CNN

One month into the partial government shutdown, hundreds of Transportation Security Administration workers going without full pay have quit, while others have taken unscheduled time off, prompting more travel headaches as a winter storm slammed the Midwest and spring break travelers try to fly. A number of travelers are facing long airport security lines, including at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where wait times on Monday occasionally stretched up to nearly two hours long. “Oh my God, are these the lines for TSA? That’s crazy,” Alijah Brown told CNN when she saw the line in Atlanta. More than 300 TSA agents have quit, the Department of Homeland Security said in an X post Friday. Last weekend, TSA workers missed their first full paycheck since the partial shutdown began in mid-February after funding for DHS, which oversees TSA, lapsed amid a standoff between Republicans and Democrats over federal immigration reform. “It’s not their fault because they’re not getting paid and they’re not going to come in here. I wouldn’t do it either,” Victoria Kilgore said as she tried to get her family of fo