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Lucille Roybal-Allard: “Mr. Administrator, the administration's budget request for transportation security officer staffing would accommodate a…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
Mr. Administrator, the administration's budget request for transportation security officer staffing would accommodate a passenger growth rate of 2.5 percent. But it estimates that the actual passenger growth rate is expected to be 4.5 percent. Why is there a mismatch? And wouldn't that result in an expansion of wait times at checkpoints?
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California

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Roybal-Allard questions the mismatch in TSA staffing budget and actual passenger growth.

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