Airports across the country could soon close their doors as the government shutdown has brought on the highest security wait times in decades, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced.

Air travel chaos has reached an intense breaking point in recent weeks with more than 480 TSA officers quitting and calling out during the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because they are not getting paid.

On Wednesday, the 40th day of the shutdown, TSA acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill told the House Homeland Security Committee that the agency is now ‘being forced to consolidate,’ meaning smaller airports would have no choice but to shutter.

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