This holiday season, nearly 18 million Americans are counting on the Transportation Security Administration to keep them safe during their flights.

But what many don’t realize is that a large chunk of TSA can be distracted by union duties, which can waste time and taxpayer money instead of ensuring security.

Good news: The Trump administration is about to change that.

Starting in January, TSA’s 47,000-plus officers will be free of the Joe Biden-created collective bargaining that’s seriously distracting the agency from its vital mission.

This month, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it’s returning to the agency’s original employment model and rescinding TSA’s collective-bargaining agreement. 

Secretary Kristi Noem made this move because, as she wrote in a September memo, collective bargaining is “not compatible with ensuring that the Agency maintains the maximum agility required to secure the traveling public from constantly evolving threats.”

This incompatibility was widely understood when the TSA was first created in the early 2000s. 

Bipartisan majorities in Congress........

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