Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers say the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown is taking a mounting toll as missed paychecks, rising absences and the arrival of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at airports deepen strain on an already depleted workforce, a new sprawling piece from The Guardian has revealed.
"It definitely impacts morale when we are expected to show up to work every day and fulfill the duties and the missions that we love and support, keeping the public safe, and we're not being paid," Antoinette Wade, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1047 and a TSA officer in Jackson, Mississippi, told the outlet. "Basically, we need to be paid."
