100 Percent Fed Up By Danielle
2,700 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers, nearly 10% of the agency’s workforce, called in sick on Tuesday.
According to ABC News, Atlanta and New Orleans saw the biggest impact.
About 40% of officers called out in each airport.
Nearly 10% or 2,700 TSA officers across the country called in sick Tuesday, according to TSA data first obtained by @ABC News. https://t.co/7q1XT7UUv0
— ABC News (@ABC) March 18, 2026
ABC News explained further:
After the partial government shutdown began for the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees TSA) on Feb. 14, TSA employees received a paycheck initially as funding dried up. Those employees received their first $0 paycheck of this shutdown last week, and the rate of unscheduled absences and callouts spiked, according to TSA statistics obtained by ABC News.
Monday remains the day with the highest callout rate of the shutdown so far, with 10.22% of officers not showing up to work at airports nationwide.
ABC News has producers at several of the airports that have seen the longest wait times in the past.
Though most airports have not seen any significant issues Wednesday, the agency warns it could be forced to shut down smaller airports if Congress isn’t able to reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security and the shutdown continues.
“Over a hundred airports in the United States have around one or two lanes,” Acting Deputy Administrator Adam Stahl told ABC News.
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