TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see long lines

TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see long lines (Thanks to Finn for this one)

On Friday, more than half of TSA employees called out at Houston’s William P. Hobby International Airport.

They are among the 61,000 government employees in the Department of Homeland Security caught in the middle as Congress remains locked in a stalemate over funding the agency.

“The traveling public has been really nice,” said Aaron Barker, the local American Federation of Government Employees union president for Atlanta. “What is shocking, though, is a lot of people are unaware that we are in a government shutdown.”