b҉most of the 60,000 Transportation Security Administration workers are among the essential workers forced to work without pay during the shutdown.
During the longest and most recent shutdown, which stretched more than 30 days from December 2018 to January 2019, T.S.A. agents at Miami International Airport called out sick at double the normal rate, forcing the airport to temporarily close an entire terminal. At one point, 10 percent of T.S.A. agents nationwide were absent, causing long security lines at major airports and even the closure of T.S.A. checkpoints. And on the last day, absences at two air-traffic control facilities led to rerouted flights and hundreds of flight delays in the Northeast.
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