DHS to Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry

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“The Department of Homeland Security will temporarily suspend two popular programs that allow some travelers to move more quickly through airport security starting Sunday at 6 a.m. Eastern due to the shutdown of much of the agency, according to a DHS spokesperson,” the Washington Post reports.“The department is pausing its TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs — one of several emergency measures the agency said it is taking to redirect staffing more than a week after Congress failed to send more money to the agency. DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem said in a statement that the agency is ‘making tough but necessary workforce and resource decisions’ and prioritizing the ‘general traveling population’ at airports and ports of entry.”