More than 50,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have been working without pay at US airports for over five weeks, and today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will step in to fill the gaps left by a workforce that can no longer afford to show up.
Saturday marked the worst day yet. TSA data showed over 3,250 officers failed to report for duty, pushing the national callout rate to 11.51%, the highest since the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown began on 14 February.
