Chad Wolf was confirmed to be the new acting secretary of Homeland Security on Wednesday. Wolf has worked with the Transportation Security Administration under the Trump administration and during the Bush administration.
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The Transportation Security Administration is estimating its agents will screen more than 26.8 million passengers over the Thanksgiving holiday from Nov. 22 to Dec. 2. This represents a 4% increase from last year.
Transportation Security Administration agents found a loaded handgun in the hand baggage of a woman at Virginia's Lynchburg Regional Airport on Tuesday. The gun was confiscated.
The Senate is expected to vote next week on the nomination of Chad Wolf as undersecretary to the Department of Homeland Security, which would then allow the Trump administration to install him as acting secretary for the entire department.
The US Senate just passed the Transportation Security Administration Credential and Endorsement Harmonization Act of 2019 to expand the number of people who can participate in TSA Precheck to also include certain transportation workers. "Enabling TSA to expand Precheck eligibility to include transportation workers who have already passed TSA security screenings is simply common sense," said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.