众议院二号领袖称机场工作人员”忧心忡忡”
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月11日 美国东部时间上午11:07
独家报道： 众议院多数党领袖、路易斯安那州共和党人史蒂夫·斯卡利斯正在猛烈抨击民主党人造成的部分政府停摆，因为其影响开始波及全国数百万机场旅客。
“预计这将是有记录以来最繁忙的春季出行季节之一。未来几周估计有超过1.71亿旅客将乘坐飞机出行，他们期望负责保障他们安全的机构能够全面运作，”斯卡利斯告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
“民主党人将国土安全部（DHS）作为政治人质的时间越长，他们迫使[运输安全管理局（TSA）]特工无薪工作的时间就越长，民主党人给普通美国人带来的痛苦就越严重。”
这一停摆正值隶属国土安全部的TSA特工们预计下周将错过第一笔全额薪水。由于民主党人继续扣留该部门的资金，以抗议唐纳德·特朗普总统对非法移民的处理方式，这场僵局仍看不到明确的结束迹象。
史蒂夫·斯卡利斯谴责民主党人在伊朗威胁下”拿国土安全部停摆进行政治博弈”
众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯警告称，由于TSA人员短缺导致的机场长时间排队可能会阻碍数百万美国旅客。(马克·费利克斯/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社；亚伦·施瓦茨/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社)
斯卡利斯自己家乡的交通枢纽——路易斯阿姆斯特朗新奥尔良国际机场——正面临因停摆持续而导致的数小时延误。
机场官方X账号本周早些时候警告旅客，由于”联邦政府部分停摆的影响”，机场安检口”TSA工作人员短缺”，建议旅客在计划出发时间前两到三小时到达机场。
“我所在的新奥尔良机场以及全国各地机场最近出现的混乱现象不容忽视——等待时间超过三小时，队伍一直延伸到停车场，”斯卡利斯说。”这太荒谬了，太可耻了，本不该发生这种事。”
斯卡利斯表示，他的办公室已就此事与机场工作人员取得联系，他们对停摆持续期间自身福利问题感到担忧。
“他们担心停摆会对[TSA员工]产生影响，以及机场能否让旅客及时通过安检并按时登机，”他说。”这是六个月内第三次，TSA特工被迫担心错过薪水，因为华盛顿民主党人一直把他们当作政治筹码。”
新奥尔良的机场并非唯一因停摆面临人员短缺问题的机场。
特朗普敦促国会通过《拯救美国法案》，全面资助国土安全部，因TSA工作人员无薪工作
得克萨斯州休斯顿的乔治·布什洲际机场因人员短缺导致开放的安检通道减少，敦促旅客比计划提前到达。附近的威廉·P·霍比机场要求国内航班旅客提前三小时、国际航班旅客提前四小时到达。
部分政府停摆已进入第25天，民主党人继续拒绝共和党提出的资助国土安全部的妥协方案。
然而，与去年持续43天的政府停摆不同，目前约97%的联邦预算已获批准。换句话说，除国土安全部外，所有机构的财政年度资金都已到位。
但国土安全部是一个涉及面广泛的部门，负责管理TSA、美国海岸警卫队、网络安全和基础设施安全局、移民和海关执法局（ICE）、海关和边境保护局（CBP）、美国特勤局等多个机构。
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除了TSA人员不足导致美国机场出现出行延误外，随着特朗普政府与以色列联合针对伊朗的行动引发国家安全威胁，停摆的影响也变得更加突出。
众议院已两次通过两党国土安全部资助法案，这是在上次停摆后两党谈判的产物。但在参议院，民主党人对推进该法案通过60票的阻挠议事门槛至关重要，目前进展几乎停滞。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者，负责众议院的主要报道工作。她此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻担任数字专栏作家。
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171 million travelers face airport delays as Democrats’ DHS shutdown hits TSA staffing, Scalise warns
The No. 2 House leader said airport staff are ‘worried’ about the shutdown
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published March 11, 2026 11:07am EDT
EXCLUSIVE:House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is hammering Democrats over the partial government shutdown as its effects begin to hit millions of travelers at airports across the country.
“This is expected to be one of the busiest spring travel seasons on record. Over 171 million travelers are estimated to fly in the coming weeks, and they expect the agencies responsible for keeping them safe to be fully operational,” Scalise told Fox News Digital.
“The longer Democrats hold the Department of Homeland Security hostage, the longer they’re forcing [Transportation Security Administration (TSA)] agents to work without pay and the worse the pain will be that Democrats inflict on regular Americans.”
It comes as TSA agents, whose agency operates under DHS, are set to miss their first full paychecks next week. And with Democrats continuing to withhold the department’s funding in protest of President Donald Trump’s handling of illegal immigration, the standoff still has no clear end in sight.
STEVE SCALISE RIPS DEMOCRATS FOR ‘PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES’ WITH DHS SHUTDOWN AMID IRAN THREAT
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is warning that lengthy airport lines due to TSA staffing shortages could hinder millions of U.S. travelers.(Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Scalise’s own hometown travel hub, the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, is facing hours-long delays due to the ongoing shutdown.
The airport’s official X account warned travelers to arrive two to three hours before their scheduled departure time earlier this week due to a “shortage of TSA workers” at its security checkpoints owing to “impacts from the federal government’s partial shutdown.”
“The recent chaos at [my airport in New Orleans,] and airports across the country, is impossible to miss — wait times longer than three hours, lines stretching out to the parking lot,” Scalise said. “It’s ridiculous, shameful, and it never should have happened.”
Scalise said his office was in contact with airport staff about the issue, and that they are concerned about their own welfare as the shutdown continues.
Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston on Monday, March 9, 2026.(Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“They’re worried about the impact the shutdown will have on [TSA employees] and the ability for the airport to get travelers through security and make their flights in a timely fashion,”he said. “This is the third time in six months that TSA agents are being forced to worry about missing a paycheck because Washington Democrats keep using them as leverage.”
The airport in New Orleans is not the only one battling staffing issues because of the shutdown.
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas urged travelers to arrive earlier than planned due to fewer airport security lines being open due to personnel shortages. Nearby William P. Hobby Airport asked people to arrive three hours early for domestic flights and four hours early for international flights.
The partial shutdown is in its 25th day as Democrats continue to refuse the GOP’s compromise offers on funding DHS.
Unlike last year’s 43-day government shutdown, however, roughly 97% of the federal budget has been accounted for already. In other words, all agencies but DHS are funded through the remainder of the fiscal year.
Arriving U.S. citizens and Green Card holders stand in line to clear immigration at Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, N.J., on Monday, March 9, 2026.(Fox News Digital)
But DHS is a wide-ranging department that oversees the TSA, U.S. Coast Guard, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the U.S. Secret Service, and others.
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In addition to travel delays hitting U.S. airports over TSA shortages, the shutdown’s effects have also come into sharper focus as national security threats grow in the U.S. over the Trump administration’s joint operation with Israel targeting Iran.
The House has now twice passed a bipartisan DHS funding bill, the product of bipartisan negotiations in the previous shutdown’s wake. But in the Senate, where Democrats are critical to advancing the legislation past the 60-vote filibuster threshold, progress has all but stalled.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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