As of today, Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security has been successful a partial authorities shutdown for astir 27 days.
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This has forced astir 50,000 TSA officers to enactment without pay due to the fact that they are classified arsenic "essential" personnel.
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That deficiency of wage is starting to drawback up with TSA workers calling retired sick, and information lines getting long. Travelers are being warned to get hours aboriginal due to the fact that of imaginable delays.
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And now, a station from the Denver International Airport (DEN) is going viral asking for donations to TSA employees:

Yes, they are truly asking radical to springiness TSA workers $10 acquisition cards.

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AP newsman Seung Min Kim put it bluntly: "A large U.S. airdrome is asking travelers to donate acquisition cards to TSA workers who are moving done a authorities shutdown and are not receiving paychecks."

The replies are arsenic bleak: "Thanks for moving for free, bask a froyo astatine menchies!" 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

Another idiosyncratic said what we're each thinking: "Our authorities sucks."

And Morning Brew shared the (inevitable) extremity screen:


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