2026年3月8日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:46 / CBS/美联社
周日，新奥尔良和休斯顿的航空公司乘客面临长达数小时的安检长龙，此前美国国土安全部因持续部分政府停摆导致人员短缺，运输安全管理局（TSA）工作人员持续缺勤。
自2月14日国会未能就几家机构的资金延期达成协议以来，TSA特工一直无薪工作。这段过长的队列为春假出行量增加雪上加霜。
在新奥尔良路易斯阿姆斯特朗国际机场，旅客被告知需至少提前3小时到达机场办理登机手续。
机场在社交媒体上表示：”由于联邦政府部分停摆的影响，TSA在安检口面临人员短缺，导致安检队伍等候时间超过平均水平。”
机场在声明中称，安检队伍等待时间可能长达2小时，延误情况可能会持续整个星期。
新奥尔良市长海伦娜·莫雷诺在Instagram发布的视频中表示：”我们在机场看到了非常非常长的队伍，与机场官员沟通后发现，这与国会的资金法案有关。TSA特工没有收到薪水，导致大量员工请病假，从而造成了这些巨大的长龙。”
社交媒体上发布的其他视频显示，安检队伍延伸至机场停车场。
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在休斯顿威廉·P·霍比机场，旅客被建议至少提前4至5小时到达机场，安检队伍等待时间可能超过3小时。周日，休斯顿的长龙照片和视频也在社交媒体上广泛传播。
2026年3月8日周日，休斯顿威廉·P·霍比机场，航空公司乘客在TSA安检处排队等候。Brett Coomer/休斯顿纪事报 via AP
华盛顿方面，国土安全部的资金拨款斗争仍在继续，民主党在同意延长该机构资金法案之前，继续要求进行改革。今年早些时候两党曾达成一项协议，本可将国土安全部的资金支持至9月。但1月份明尼阿波利斯联邦特工枪杀Renee Good和Alex Pretti事件后，民主党要求改革移民执法措施，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默当时表示：”我们需要约束移民与海关执法局（ICE）并结束暴力行为。”
上周，众议院以221票对209票通过了一项支持国土安全部至9月的资金法案，但类似法案在参议院未能获得必要的60票支持，仅获得51票。
美国航空公司贸易组织——美国航空业协会（Airlines for America）总裁兼首席执行官克里斯·苏努努在声明中敦促国会和特朗普政府采取行动。
“我们正处于春假出行季，预计会有创纪录的旅客选择乘飞机出行。航空公司已尽最大努力做好准备；现在国会和政府必须紧急达成协议，重新开放国土安全部并结束此次停摆，”他说，”美国的运输安全队伍至关重要，不能被用作政治筹码。”
杰西卡·安德森·亚历克西和她的两个孩子（10岁和13岁）也在休斯顿霍比机场的长龙中，他们原本在休斯顿参加世界棒球经典赛，现在正试图返回新奥尔良。
亚历克西表示，他们提前3小时到达机场，却发现队伍过长，意识到可能赶不上航班。排队期间，她查询了租车公司，发现无法租到车辆，只能改乘深夜航班。幸运的是，她在CLEAR快速安检通道排队约3.5小时后终于通过安检。
当他们终于坐下吃饭时，亚历克西决定再查看可用航班，希望排队的其他人可能会取消行程，重新安排计划。结果她发现有三个空位，让全家在周日下午成功返回新奥尔良。当飞机降落在新奥尔良机场时，她表示，安检队伍已经延伸到了停车场。
“简直疯了，”她说，”太不可思议了。”
Long security lines at Houston, New Orleans airports as DHS funding affects TSA staffing
March 8, 2026 / 9:46 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Airline passengers faced long security lines that took hours to get through in New Orleans and Houston on Sunday, as the Transportation Security Administration deals with continued absences amid the ongoing partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security.
TSA agents have been working without pay since the start of the partial shutdown, which began Feb. 14 after Congress could not come to an agreement to extend funding for several agencies. The long lines also come amid increased travel for spring break,
At Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, travelers were told to arrive at least 3 hours before their flights.
“Due to impacts from the federal government’s partial shutdown, the TSA is experiencing a shortage of workers at the security checkpoint, which is causing longer-than-average lines,” the airport said on social media.
The airport said in a statement that security line wait times could be as long as 2 hours, and that the delays could continue throughout the week.
“We’ve got really, really long lines at the airport, and, from talking to the airport officials, it appears that this has to do with the funding bill in Congress,” New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno said in a video posted to Instagram. “TSA agents didn’t receive a paycheck, so you have a lot of the workforce that has called in sick, which is causing these huge, huge lines.”
Other videos posted to social media showed security lines stretching out into the airport’s parking garage.
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At Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport, passengers were told to arrive four to 5 hours before their departure times, with security line wait times that could stretch over 3 hours. Images and videos from Houston showing long lines also flooded social media on Sunday.
Airline passengers wait in long lines to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
The battle to fund DHS continues in Washington, as Democrats continue to demand reforms before signing on to any legislation to extend the agency’s funding. A bipartisan agreement had been reached earlier in the year that would have funded DHS through September. But the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis in January then prompted Democrats to demand reforms to immigration enforcement, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying at the time, “we need to rein in ICE and end the violence.”
Last week, the House approved a measure to fund DHS through September in a 221 to 209 vote, but a similar bill failed to get the necessary 60 votes in the Senate, managing only 51.
Chris Sununu, president and CEO of Airlines for America, a trade group for U.S. airlines, in a statement urged Congress and the Trump administration to act.
“We are in spring break travel season and expecting record numbers of people to take to the skies. Airlines have done their part to prepare; now Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown,” he said. “America’s transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage.”
Jessica Andersen Alexie and her two children, 10 and 13, were among the travelers caught in the long lines at Hobby in Houston as they tried to return home to New Orleans. They had been in Houston for the World Baseball Classic.
Alexie said they arrived 3 hours early to find a long line and realized they would not make their flight. While in line, she checked rental cars to see if driving home might be an option but couldn’t find any available. She was able to rebook for a late-night flight and felt relieved to get through the CLEAR security line after about 3 1/2 hours.
When they finally sat down to eat, she decided to take another look at available flights, on the chance that others in line had to cancel and rearrange their plans, and found three seats on a flight that got her family home Sunday afternoon. When they landed at the New Orleans airport, the line extended out to the parking garage, she said.
“It was nuts,” she said. “It was crazy.”