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IAH posted three- to four-hour TSA waits again Wednesday morning.
Increasingly agitated travelers are sacrificing countless hours and missing milestone events as a partial government shutdown spills into its 40th day and the country loses hundreds of airport security employees.
"It's not rocket science."
Houston travelers facing long TSA lines during the shutdown can check wait times through airport websites, apps and tracking sites.
Exhausted travelers flying into Boston said they spent several hours in TSA lines at Houston's airport before getting on their flights.
ICE agents, who were deployed to Bush Intercontinental Airport earlier this week, began checking IDs and assisting TSA officers with logistics before Trump made his Thursday night announcement.
Travelers at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport expressed they are grateful for ICE agents lending hand amid massive TSA lines.
TSA workers in Dallas have gone unpaid because of the partial government shutdown, but are still showing up to work. Some are even volunteering at the airports in Houston to help with the long TSA wait times there.