More Than 300 TSA Workers Have Quit During Homeland Security Shutdown

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a partial shutdown on Feb. 14.

Airline passengers wait in long lines outside the terminal to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston on March 8, 2026. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP

More than 300 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have quit since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a partial shutdown on Feb. 14 after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach a funding deal.

“Our hardworking TSA officers are, again, being forced by the Democrats to work without pay—for the THIRD time in nearly six months,” the Department of Homeland Security stated in a post on X on March 11.