Security officers at airports around the country were already expressing increasing anxiety about their financial plight. “It’s difficult to budget things like food, or knowing which bills to pay, when you simply don’t know when you’ll have money again,” said a 29-year-old man who works for the T.S.A. at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. He said that he had contacted his banks, mortgage company and other creditors but none of them had a program to help in his situation. At O’Hare, he said, “Our policies and screening procedures aren’t being done any less thorough, but it’s likely they may take longer the more officers we become short.”

Source: New York Times January 11, 2019 18:43 UTC