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Sean Duffy: “TSA agents are law enforcement.”

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Published March 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:47

It's leverage. Democrats want to see long lines at airports as leverage. President Trump's trying to take that leverage away and not make the American people suffer. So TSA agents are law enforcement. They know how to pat people down. They know how to run the X ray machines because they are, again, under Homeland Security with tsa. (01:47–01:50)

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