Overview

• Democratic senators, led by Maria Cantwell with Richard Blumenthal and Jack Reed, called for investigations and removal of the video, citing possible Hatch Act and Anti-Lobbying Act violations.
• Detroit’s Wayne County Airport Authority formally asked TSA to stop playing the video on TSA-leased checkpoint monitors at DTW, saying the agency did not seek approval.
• Most major airports, including hubs in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, declined to air the clip on airport-controlled displays due to policies against political content.
• Some TSA-controlled monitors continued showing the message at select locations, with reports confirming playback at Detroit, Bismarck and Albany.
• DHS officials defended the message and said security operations remain largely unimpacted, while noting that roughly 61,000 of TSA’s approximately 64,000 employees are working without pay during the shutdown.