Jess👾Lukewarm take: TSA and Air Traffic Controllers need to be simply funded by an excise tax on airlines, and not subject to annual appropriations bills.
Riley S. Faelan@JessTheUnstill This applies to ATC. TSA just needs to be abolished. It serves no real purpose. Its original purpose was to pacify people who were too anxious to fly after the unique and never-again-feasible events of 2001-09-11, but it's much more cost-effective to handle flying anxiety by offering complimentary Xanax to anxious flyers. (Well, anxious passengers. The pilots probably shouldn't take benzos before piloting without some thorough medical assesment first.)