On Capitol Hill, lawmakers hurled accusations about who’s at fault for the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that’s left nearly 58,000 Transportation Security Administration officers unpaid and caused hours-long waits at airports.
But there’s plenty of fault to go around to one TSA officer standing outside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport’s Terminal 2 on a cigarette break during another unpaid shift as he and his colleagues near the breaking point.
“At this point, everyone’s to blame,” said the agent with a decade of experience, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak with the press. ...