Daryl Campbell

So it's probably airports that you don't fly a lot to unless you're taking the super budget airlines or unless you fly out of San Francisco and Kansas City.

But there are about 20 airports in the U.S.

that take part in what's called the Screening Partnership Program or SPP.

And that basically means that they hire a private company to do all of the exact same things that TSA officers do.

So the ID checks, the pat downs, the scans, they do it to the TSA standard, but they actually staff them with private security contractors.

Yeah, it's really...

really just based on whether the municipality or whichever is the controlling entity of the airport wants to do it.

So TSA officially doesn't object if a company wants to come in and privatize it.

But for the most part, they don't because PSA is kind of an out of the box solution.

Project 2025 really doesn't like the Department of Homeland Security.

They say it was an overreach of government authority, a vast expansion of the bureaucratic state.

And

You know, if you've been through TSA in the last 20 years, you probably find some truth in that, that it is kind of this expansion of powers in intrusive ways that doesn't really do a ton to actually keep people safe.

That being said, if you look at what Project 2025 actually says about TSA, it's pretty small.

It says the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, be privatized.

Right there.

Project 2025.

Until it is privatized, TSA should be treated as a national security provider and its workforce should be de-unionized immediately.

This is the recommendation of the Heritage Foundation in Chapter 5, page 134 of their Mandate for Leadership, better known as Project 2025.

So it's like one bullet points on the overall section about the DHS and then about a page and a half of stuff.