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People wait in long security lines at LaGuardia Airport on March 25, 2026, in the Queens borough of New York City. Travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents have quit or are working without pay during a partial government shutdown. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week, as wait times at American airports stretched beyond four hours in some cases, I got a text message from a fellow Kansan who was worried about flying this week. <\/span><\/p>\n

OK. It was my mom.<\/p>\n

She clipped and texted a bit of a <\/span>New York Times article<\/span><\/a> that explained why wait times were so short at the first airport on her trip: Kansas City International.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even during a negotiating impasse in Washington \u2014 one that froze the pay for Transportation Security Administration employees \u2014 passengers flying out of Kansas City experienced \u201cwait times below 10 minutes, with peaks of no more than 30 minutes,\u201d according to an airport spokesman interviewed by the Times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The TSA lines at airports in Houston, LaGuardia and Atlanta, meanwhile, have been the lead stories on the network TV morning news shows. Lines snaked through lobbies and hallways.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, how did Kansas City get so lucky as to have both a new airport and short wait times?<\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out that it\u2019s not luck, but privatization of airport security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Times article explained that <\/span>Kansas City<\/span><\/a> is one of <\/span>20 airports nationwide<\/span><\/a> participating in the Screening Partnership Program. If you have flown into Orlando, San Francisco or Sarasota recently, your security was handled by a private company \u2014 not TSA.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the TSA\u2019s website, the program \u201ccontracts security screening services at commercial airports to qualified private companies. These companies run screening operations under federal oversight and must comply with all TSA security screening procedures.\u201d Airports submit a two-page application posted on the TSA website followed by a 60-day review period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder how many applications from restless airports are awaiting review after this delay in TSA funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

After I read the excerpt of the article that my mom sent along, I noticed her text message. Her words were more newsworthy than any article I have read this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey should privatize all TSAs at airports,\u201d my mom wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

That comment shook me \u2014 especially because it came from my mom, a liberal voice in my life who is a reliable Democratic voter. This must be Bizarro-America if my mom is calling for privatization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, we live in Double-Bizarro-America. One where thousands of federal workers charged with sensitive security jobs come to work without pay. One where the federal government periodically lurches to a stop after government funding bills fail. One where the president rallied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports where they couldn\u2019t do much to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Super-Double-Bizarro-America of 2026 might be giving us political vertigo. A topsy-turvy gravity is sending liberals tripping into unfamiliar corners of the room, urging the privatization of what we all considered a fundamental federal government job: the person behind the X-ray machine inspecting your toiletry bag in neon relief.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the past 50 years (and particularly during the past 10 years), conservative politicians have aimed to convince America of a grand idea: Defenestrate the federal government. It\u2019s a backlash to FDR\u2019s New Deal that continues as we approach its 100th anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chant the slogans along with me. \u201cDrain the swamp!\u201d \u201cStarve the beast!\u201d \u201cSmaller government, more freedom!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservatives carry this aversion into nearly every realm of governing, save for defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like giving palace keys to a graffiti artist. Like giving a Rolls Royce to a demolition derby driver. Like giving a cupcake to a 2-year-old in a high chair. <\/span>This is going to get messy.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A response from conservatives might blame Democrats for not negotiating more urgently. Or, they might point to airport security privatization as the long-term solution, like my mom suggested.<\/span><\/p>\n

By bringing her, an ardent foe of conservative ideology, around to a point of view that erodes the federal government even a little bit, their strategy gains ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s not a winning strategy at the November midterm ballot box, if voters remember the discomfort of the airport lines and associate them with Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s certainly a recipe for other conservative objectives: whittling down the impact of the federal government, nudging Americans toward greater privatization, and ensuring that Americans keep considering the supposedly dark specter of illegal immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thinking goes: \u201cSure, we might lose the battle. Voters might blame us as airports descend into gridlock. But if we can make everyday Americans become 10% more skeptical of the government, we win the ideological war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With my phone in my hand and my mom\u2019s text message waiting for an answer, I stood in my kitchen wondering what to write back. (If only I would have had this column at my fingertips.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, I typed out a few words that I hoped would sum up that I understood her frustration and the political tactics that landed us here.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDesperate times call for desperate measures,\u201d I typed and hit send.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Thomas teaches visual journalism and photojournalism at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Through its opinion section, Kansas Reflector works to amplify the voices of people who are affected by public policies or excluded from public debate. Find information, including how to submit your own commentary, here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This story was originally produced by Kansas Reflector<\/a>, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Missouri Independent, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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