I want to talk about what’s been playing out at our airports and how it’s all connected to Project 2025.

Because Democrats are fighting to rein in Trump’s rogue ICE agency and refuse to send them MORE money until we can get them in check, Republicans have led us to the Department of Homeland Security being shut down.

That has impacted services like TSA and FEMA — resulting in TSA workers working 41 days without pay and causing heavy delays and chaos at airports across the country.

Even though Democrats have proposed funding TSA to get people paid and settle the chaos at our airports NINE TIMES, Senate Republicans blocked every single bill.

The Trump administration and its MAGA enablers in Congress do not care about protecting our workers or serving the traveling public.

This is all a ploy for power that pushes an inhumane agenda against our immigrant neighbors — and that stirs up as much chaos as possible on purpose.

This was taken straight from the Project 2025 playbook. Project 2025 proposed privatizing TSA screening, shifting airport workers away from the government and its protections, into the hands of private contractors, and de-unionizing TSA workers.

What we see unfolding right now is not a contingency plan. It was always the plan. They want to use this to make the case for this essential government service to be owned and run by another rich guy like Elon Musk.

We’re talking about the lives and livelihoods of our neighbors, who are strained by missing paychecks and an inability to put food on the table.

We’re talking about people waiting hours in line at the airport only to still miss expensive trips or special reunions.

We’re talking about an administration who will inflict as much pain as possible in order to keep funding ICE — deploying those untrained agents at our airports to scare people (and who are getting paid, by the way).

We’re talking about a government with an agenda to make taxpayer-funded services so useless that they can sell them off to the highest bidder so we can just pay their friends to get through the airport.

The. Cruelty. Is. The. Point.

I’ll keep fighting to expose the truth about this administration’s cruel motives, to ensure our essential TSA workers get paid, and to abolish ICE.

In solidarity,

Ayanna