March 26, 2026
VIDEO: Pressley Slams GOP for Denying TSA Workers Pay, Highlights Project 2025 Plot to Privatize, De-Unionize TSA
Pressley Demands Pay, Dignity for TSA Workers as Agency Shutdown Reaches 40 Days
Pressley Co-Led Congressional Stop Project 2025 Task Force
WASHINGTON – Today on the House floor, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force, slammed Republicans for blocking multiple Democratic-led proposals to fund key agencies like TSA and FEMA, and shed light on a targeted proposal in Project 2025 to privatize TSA and strip TSA workers of their right to unionize.
A transcript of the Congresswoman’s remarks is available below, and the video is available here.
Transcript: Pressley Slams GOP for Denying TSA Workers Pay, Highlights Project 2025 Plot to Privatize, De-Unionize TSA
U.S. House of Representatives
March 26, 2026
Mr. Speaker,
I rise today on behalf of our dedicated TSA workers—workers throughout the country, including in the Massachusetts 7th who take pride in their essential work and they call Boston Logan International Airport their employer.
They have gone 40 days without pay for their essential work.
The Trump administration does not care about protecting our workers or serving the travelling public.
This is all a ploy for power and pushing an inhumane agenda against our immigrant neighbors.
Now, let’s go back to Project 2025.
I was a co-founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force here in the House.
Project 2025 proposed privatizing TSA screening, shifting airport workers away from the government and its protections and into the hands of private contractors. It called for the de-unionizing of TSA workers immediately.
What we see unfolding right now—this is not a contingency plan. It was always the plan.
And to bring in ICE agents, who continue to be paid, as if they will be able to step in for these highly trained, dedicated, and still unpaid TSA workers is not a solution.
Mr. Speaker, these are the lives and livelihoods of our neighbors, who are strained by missing paychecks and an inability to put food on the table.
Democrats have put forward multiple proposals to keep key agencies such as TSA and FEMA funded, while not giving another cent to ICE.
Republicans have refused each and every time. The cruelty is truly the point.
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