{"id":81728,"date":"2026-03-26T08:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81728"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:11:30","slug":"the-airport-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-airport-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Airport Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pressure is mounting on Congress to end the funding shutdown that\u2019s resulted in\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shutdown-houston-airport-travel-impact-c46f4d6f49383bc9a457f3ebe001fbc1\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">travel disruptions,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0missed paychecks and even\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/airport-wait-times-shutdown-dhs-congress-tsa-391cbd731bed2e8433ab7f1a96ca9663\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">warnings of airport closures,<\/a><\/span>\u00a0but lawmakers have yet to resolve the underlying issue of reining in President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/immigration\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">immigration enforcement operations<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0Senators are expected to vote Thursday on a Republican proposal that would fund the Transportation Security Administration and much of the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-homeland-security\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/span>, except the enforcement and removal operations conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But it\u2019s expected to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats argue the GOP plan does not go far enough at putting guardrails on ICE, Customs and Border Protection and other federal officers who are engaged in the Trump administration\u2019s immigration sweeps, particularly after the\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-minneapolis-sue-alex-pretti-renee-good-5a0b98ac7173ce0e9ecc3bf9a39e3919\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">deaths of two Americans<\/a><\/span>\u00a0protesting the actions in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774512690\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"The Airport Crisis\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pressure is mounting on Congress to end the funding shutdown that\u2019s resulted in\u00a0travel disruptions,\u00a0missed paychecks and even\u00a0warnings of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}