Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The bill would abolish the Transportation Security Administration three years after enactment, require privatization of commercial airport screening, create an FAA Office of Aviation Security Oversight to regulate but not perform screening, transfer certain surface-transportation functions to DOT, and require a DHS reorganization plan, periodic GAO reports, and expedited congressional review procedures.
Ambitious, ideologically charged elimination of a security agency with large operational and political consequences; low chance absent aligned majorities and executive support.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear substantive policy change that sets a high-level framework and timeline for abolishing the TSA and shifting aviation screening to private contractors, and it includes administrative and procedural mechanisms to manage and review that transition. The bill provides several key deadlines, identifies responsible officials, requires a reorganization plan and frequent oversight reports, and creates an FAA oversight office, but it leaves significant implementation, fiscal, legal, and operational details unspecified.
Progressives emphasize security, workers, civil-rights risks from privatization.
Progressives emphasize security, workers, civil-rights risks from privatization.
Likely strongly skeptical or opposed.
Concerns focus on public safety, worker protections, civil-rights enforcement, and accountability during privatization and transition.
Mixed view: open to efficiency gains but worried about implementation and security continuity.
Emphasis on careful, evidence-based transition and strong oversight.
Generally favorable.
Views abolition and privatization as reducing federal overreach, improving efficiency, and returning services to private sector and market discipline.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Ambitious, ideologically charged elimination of a security agency with large operational and political consequences; low chance absent aligned majorities and executive support.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize security, workers, civil-rights risks from privatization.
Ambitious, ideologically charged elimination of a security agency with large operational and political consequences; low chance absent alig…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clear substantive policy change that sets a high-level framework and timeline for abolishing the TSA and shifting aviation screening to private contractors, and…
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