DHS Wants To Pay For Border Operations With Loose Change Found At Airports

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The Department of Homeland Security is apparently exhausting every option available to it in order to fund $1.1 billion for operations at the southern border — including yanking loose change found in airports across the country. DHS is looking to pocket the loose change that TSA agents find when travelers forget to grab their money after going through metal detectors and other security checkpoints. In total, funding from the discarded change could provide DHS with $3 million.

DHS could also take funding away from a program aimed to compensate injured transportation security officers (screeners), a compensation fund currently valued at $64 million.

DHS is also looking toward reducing the number of Transportation Security Officers that are staffed at airports across the nation, a move that could make wait times longer for travelers during the summer months.

And shifting funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is charged with responding to and aiding local communities when national disasters strike the U.S.

https://hillreporter.com/dhs-wants-to-pay-for-border-operations-with-loose-change-found-at-airports-36593

[Rambling Man]

1. Maybe they can have a yard sale

and sell all the crap they steal at security checkpoints.

[rzemanfl]

2. TSA means "take something, always." n/t

[Chin music]

3. Wow.

I never got scalped, that I know of. Did you get ripped off? What stuff do you have to watch out for?

[rzemanfl]

7. Just minor items and stuff I forgot to pick up at the end of the line.

Nothing lately.

[MineralMan]

8. They already do sell the stuff.

Auctions. See this link for links to auctions in your area.

https://www.eyeflare.com/article/where-buy-goods-confiscated-tsa/

[Rambling Man]

9. No

a yard sale, with crudely drawn Yard Sale signs plastered along the way to every major airport in the US.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I thought this was The Onion.

Guess not...

[rainin]

5. This sounds like weakening security at airports is a feature not a bug.

Is it possible there is a kingpin somewhere who sees this as an opportunity? Perhaps a strongman somewhere in the world wants to ease the movement of drugs around and has no problem paying for it. Trump is open for business.

Sounds conspiratorial... in another time. Not now.

[MineralMan]

6. "Spare change, mister?" I'm with the DHS. "Spare change?"

Jebus!

[Johonny]

10. They "find" this money by forcing you to take it out of your pockets and hoping you forget about it