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TSA considers using $3MILLION in loose change left in airport security screening trays
The Daily Mail UK ^ | 21 May 2019 | Keith Griffith, Daily Mail and Reuters

Posted on 05/21/2019 11:10:31 PM PDT by blueplum

Full Title: TSA considers using $3MILLION in loose change left in airport security screening trays to fund border operations

The Transpiration Security Administration is considering using $3million loose change left behind in security screening trays to help fund border operations, if Congress does not approve President Donald Trump's $1.1billion border security funding request.

The White House on May 1 asked Congress for $4.5 billion in emergency funds to address the rising number of people crossing the southwestern border with Mexico, with $1.1 billion set aside specifically for 'border operations.' ...

...A TSA spokesman said the agency was looking for volunteers to support efforts at the border with Mexico, where the government has said it is grappling with record numbers of people.

TSA staff will include 175 law enforcement officials, including air marshals, and as many as 400 security staff drawn from six unnamed U.S. cities but will not include airport screeners, CNN reported last week, citing two additional unnamed sources

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arizona; borderfunding; borderpatrol; buildthefence; california; daca; dhs; dreamact; dreamers; florida; mexico; newmexico; newyork; texas; tsa
Leaked docs, titled "Border Crisis - Pre-Decisional For Internal Use Only" and "Sourcing the $232 Million - Pre-Decisional For Internal Use Only" at link
1 posted on 05/21/2019 11:10:31 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

[ $3MILLION in loose change left in airport security screening trays ]

Man, I gotta open up me one of those TSA thingies.....

I could Supersize when I go to McDonald’s .......


2 posted on 05/21/2019 11:20:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: blueplum

[The Transpiration]

Uhh......


3 posted on 05/21/2019 11:22:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Not an error so much as a Freudian slip. Probably had Gorebull warming and the oxygen carbon dioxide exchange on his mind while writing this article.


4 posted on 05/22/2019 12:49:45 AM PDT by chulaivn66 ("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
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To: SaveFerris; Gamecock; PROCON; Rebelbase
No, you gotta have-a bills.


5 posted on 05/22/2019 1:49:42 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: blueplum

It should be used to compensate victims of theft and sexual assault at the hands of the TSA.


6 posted on 05/22/2019 3:01:04 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: blueplum

Oh, that must be mine. Where can I pick it up?


7 posted on 05/22/2019 3:18:51 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: blueplum

I suppose the other alternative is bulldozing all of it into a trench. I say, use that cash but reduce the taxpayer’s taxation support by the same amount.


8 posted on 05/22/2019 5:56:22 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Larry Lucido

Hmmm, $3 million in loose change in my pockets......


9 posted on 05/22/2019 9:56:09 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Put inna tip jar. It make-a da noise.


10 posted on 05/22/2019 9:57:32 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

I always take care of my paisanos!!


11 posted on 05/22/2019 10:00:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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