White House Cuts 9,400 TSA Jobs, $1.5B

White House proposes cutting over 9,400 TSA jobs and more than $1.5 billion from its budget.
Current TSA workforce of 60,000 would be reduced by roughly 7,500 jobs through private‑security shift at small airports and efficiency measures.
Privatizing smaller airports should cut over 4,500 jobs, while TSA aims to remove 4,800 positions via exit‑lane staffing reductions and redundancy elimination.
President Donald Trump announced the proposal on Friday, marking the first step toward broader privatization of the post‑9/11 security agency.