More than 400 TSA officers have quit since shutdown began

Yeah, their bad faith negotiations make me think they just want to also claim TSA is ineffective/unfundable and now a branch of ICE. I mean if you want total border control, taking over the airports is pretty obvious. This is so insane to think about.

They want to privatize TSA. It’s laid out in project 2025.

the way things are going you can't trust them to pay that out

did that ever actually materialize?

Weren't those payments already earmarked, but just renamed so that bozo could take credit? I could very easily be mixing up another one of his scams. It's scams all the way down.

Is the pay that decent if some people are living paycheck to paycheck?

Everyone else is capable of going elsewhere. There are reports that literacy is optional to join ICE. There are reports that half of new recruits failed the open book test. These people will do anything to keep this gig. They'll never be able to get a higher paying job doing anything else. It would actually be kind of sad in a potential "I pay thy poverty and not thy will" sense if they didn't all seem so keen on being the American SS.

Fair point

https://hiring.cafe/ (no affiliation, just a resource) ~400k workers age out of the US workforce every month, either through retirement (Boomers) or death (https://archive.today/sKeyE). ~4M-5M/year. While job growth has slowed to stall speed per Chair Powell (for obvious reasons), as long as people in the labor force keep retiring and dying, jobs will open up. If you have the skills or resources to leave the country, r/AmerExit is an option. The developed world is hungry for skilled labor. I understand this likely does not apply to TSA agents, but is worth mentioning for others. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm (US BLS JOLTS report) https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/aug/lower-immigration-projections-mean-lower-breakeven-employment-growth https://www.epi.org/publication/the-u-s-born-labor-force-will-shrink-over-the-next-decade-achieving-historically-normal-gdp-growth-rates-will-be-impossible-unless-immigration-flows-are-sustained/ Google "US labor shortages" for more on this topic. We're not quite at the acute phase yet, but we will get there due to structural demographics. We get there faster if we keep immigration down and people who want out of the US get out as quickly as possible. https://lightcast.io/resources/research/the-rising-storm https://lightcast.io/resources/blog/the-rising-storm-one-year-later https://www.aei.org/domestic-policy/our-labor-force-demographics-are-getting-worse/ > Whatever the bump from immigrant marriages and birth, labor force participation continues to slide. The participation rate fell from 62.7 percent in late 2024 to 62.4 percent by the end of 2025, a decline that accounts for hundreds of thousands of missing workers. This comes on top of roughly eight million additional people who remain outside the labor force relative to pre-pandemic levels, driven by accelerated retirements, softer economic conditions, and the withdrawal of foreign-born workers who face greater scrutiny during the immigration crackdown. > The exit of older workers is particularly consequential. Earlier forecasts assumed rising participation among older adults would offset slower growth among prime-age workers. The updated data say otherwise. The decline in the over-55 workforce is now both sharp and durable. By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be at least 66 years old, and apart from a sudden leap in life expectancy, there is little reason to expect a meaningful rebound in older-worker participation rates. https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-21-states-where-deaths-now-outnumber-births-2092400

I don't think the folks who work for TSA are interested in the exposure working for ICE creates. ICE agents are running away from photographers at various airports this morning, for example.

Ice isn’t a short term solution by any f****** means. They’re literally dismantling every institution of government before our eyes and replacing it with unqualified yes men.

You mean like this: https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/04/14/legislation-introduced-to-abolish-tsa/

Don't know where you're getting that democrats are moving further right. If anything, primaries are all turning into "who is more progressive". And not being a progressive makes you lose a significant chunk of votes.

America has several sub-culture parties but the way our system is structured makes it so that the smaller sub-cultures are forced to work with a larger group or else have almost no chance at all. Our Founding Father's in their attempt to structure our democracy and wanting to avoid political parties set up a system where only 2 political parties can ever be viable. In short, smart as they were, they fucked up.

It’s a big-appearing number for clickbait headlines. Government jobs aren’t really known for high turnover and TSA isn’t an exception. I’m not sure how anyone would make their finances work with the amount of federal disruptions in the last 15 months. They’re pawns for both sides, though one side is clearly in the wrong in my eyes.