Federal Customs Payroll Collapses As Security Funding Evaporates #
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin delivered the terminal arithmetic on Tuesday: the state will soon run out of money to pay 50,000 transportation security workers. The failure stems from a massive funding lapse that is rapidly degrading federal infrastructure. At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, passengers are already sweating through four-hour lines on the hard tile floors. The internal apparatus of the state is quietly liquidating its core physical functions. One official in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis described an…