​The TSA is broken — is privatization next? 

​The TSA is broken — is privatization next? 

TSA airport lines

Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 23, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

KC Guidry usually gets to the airport two hours before a flight to give herself enough time to get through security. But she knew her flight on the morning of Monday, March 23, out of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport was going to be anything but routine.

“I heard the lines were long through TikTok and through the news,” she said. “The day before, I saw the wait time for the terminal I needed to leave from was 200 minutes. I saw they were not doing PreCheck or CLEAR, so I adjusted my schedule.”

She arrived at the airport at 12:30AM for a 7:20AM flight and joined a security line that was already looping around Houston’s Termina …

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