GOP Sen. Mike Lee Calls For “Abolishing The TSA”

March 12, 2024 Politics, Republicans

Glenn Beck’s The Blaze reports:

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah advocated the idea of abolishing the Transportation Security Administration, suggesting that airlines would do a better job of conducting security screenings.

“Air-travel security need not depend on TSA. Airlines have many compelling reasons to keep weapons out of planes. They’d do so if a federal agency didn’t do it for them—probably better than TSA, without implicating the Constitution, and in a manner more respectful to passengers,” Lee tweeted.

The agency was established in the in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. “The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established TSA,” according to tsa.gov.

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