Atlanta airport slammed with nearly 3-hour wait as security line wraps around baggage claim amid Dem shutdown: ‘PURE INSANITY!’
NY Post
Travelers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport faced a hellish travel weekend, with TSA wait lines reportedly lasting nearly three hours because of the partial government shutdown.
Dizzying images from America’s busiest air hub shows the security lines extending into the baggage-claim section of the airport on both Saturday and Sunday, with estimated waiting times reaching 153 minutes, according to a traveler.
“The line is WRAPPING AROUND BAGGAGE CLAIM!!! THIS IS PURE INSANITY!!!!!!” Matt Van Swol wrote on X after arriving at the airport at 6 a.m.
The staggering long lines at the Georgia hub and other airports around the country triggered President Trump on Sunday to order Immigration and Customs Enforcement officersto be deployed at airports to help clear them.
After TSA agents missed their first paycheck last week because of the funding shutdown, daily absentism among workers soared.
At Hartsfield-Jackson, that daily rate has reached as high as 40%, according to airport officials.
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Every one of the tens of thousands of Americans stuck in endless security lines at airports should know who to blame: Democrats in Congress who think your suffering is a small price to pay for showing their elite donors that they’re “doing something” about ICE.