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华盛顿8月7日 路透社电 — 美国参议院周五投票确认塞尔科公司高级副总裁戴维·卡明斯出任运输安全管理局局长，与此同时特朗普政府正推动小型机场安保服务私有化。
此次共有包括卡明斯在内的数十项提名以51票赞成、47票反对获得通过，涉及的提名包括美国消费品安全委员会、国家运输安全委员会、地面运输委员会的相关人选，以及克里斯托弗·费兰出任白宫经济顾问委员会主席，卡梅伦·汉密尔顿出任联邦紧急事务管理局局长。
唐纳德·特朗普总统今年4月提议削减逾9400个工作岗位，并为拥有6万名员工、负责机场安保运营的运输安全管理局年度预算削减约15亿美元，降幅约20%。
塞尔科公司为联邦、州和地方政府以及商业客户提供工程、信息技术和培训服务。
特朗普还提议要求小型机场使用私人安保力量，此举第一步将削减运输安全管理局逾4500个岗位，为这家在2001年9·11袭击后成立的机构私有化铺平道路。
坦帕、艾奥瓦州得梅因以及南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的机场近期表示，他们正计划推进机场安保私有化。包括旧金山、堪萨斯城以及佛罗里达州萨拉索塔在内的约20家机场多年来一直在使用私人安保安检人员。
特朗普在2025年就职首日解雇了运输安全管理局局长戴维·佩科斯克，且长达16个月未提名继任人选。特朗普在其第一任期内提名了佩科斯克，而前总统乔·拜登为其续任了五年任期。
今年春季的长期政府停摆导致5万名运输安全管理局员工六周未领到工资，引发大规模混乱，包括机场安检排队时间延长至四小时甚至更久。
代表美国主要航空公司的美国航空业联盟表示，反对白宫提出的要求小型机场使用私人安保安检人员、替代运输安全管理局的提案。
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Senate confirms Trump pick to oversee TSA as administration pushes private airport security
August 7, 2026 6:40 PM UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers walk through the domestic terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 27, 2026…. Read more
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to confirm David Cummins, a senior vice president of Serco, to head the Transportation Security Administration as the Trump administration pushes to privatize screeners at smaller airports.
Cummins and dozens of other nominees were confirmed on a 51-47 vote, including members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Transportation Safety Board and Surface Transportation Board as well as Christopher Phelan to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Cameron Hamilton to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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President Donald Trump proposed in April cutting more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion, or about 20%, from the annual budget of the 60,000-employee TSA that handles airport security operations.
Serco offers engineering, IT, and training services to federal, state and local governments, and commercial customers.
Trump also proposed requiring smaller airports to use private security, a move that would cut the TSA payroll by more than 4,500 jobs in a first step toward privatizing the agency created after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Airports in Tampa, Des Moines, Iowa, and Charleston, South Carolina, said recently they are planning to proceed with privatizing airport security. About 20 airports, including those in San Francisco, Kansas City and Sarasota, Florida, have used private security screeners for years.
Trump fired TSA head David Pekoske on the president’s first day in office in 2025 and did not nominate a replacement for 16 months. Trump had nominated Pekoske during his first term and former President Joe Biden nominated him for a second five-year term.
A lengthy government shutdown this spring forced 50,000 TSA workers to go without pay for six weeks, resulting in major disruptions, including airport security waits extending four hours or more.
Airlines for America, which represents major U.S. airlines, has said it opposes the White House proposal to require smaller airports to use private security screeners instead of the TSA.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Nia Williams and Alistair Bell
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