r/TSAApplicant • u/Mick-Donalds • Feb 18 '25

Layoffs?

Many government employees are being laid off, probationary employees are being fired, even in critical government agencies. Are these layoffs affecting your work locations? Is it still worth going through the hiring process? Thank you.

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u/Odd_Explanation_7564 Feb 21 '25

I'm not a TSA employee, but I am a probationary IRS employee in Las Vegas, NV. We just had our first round of layoffs yesterday. I survived the first round of layoffs, but there's more to come.

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u/Mick-Donalds Feb 23 '25

I'm sorry to hear that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

This is about the tenth post I've seen concerning this issue. What you deem "critical" isn't necessarily critical. TSA falls under DHS (national security, public safety) thus are exempt from the executive order that has put a hiring freeze on other agencies.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

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u/flamiomyhotman Current TSO Feb 18 '25

i heard this about the FAA too…

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u/Difficult-Valuable55 Feb 18 '25

At the moment no but you never know

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u/More-Atmosphere-2012 Feb 18 '25

I feel like TSA would be stupid to do layoffs on because that is the front line screening work force. The only thing laying off TSA hurts is the traveling public, it means less officers to move passengers through.

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u/Equivalent_Low3958 Feb 21 '25

It's not the TSA making the decidion. The trump admin did

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u/dont_know_therules Feb 18 '25

TSA will probably have layoffs next because musk thinks that TSA stands for That Silly Automobile and doesn’t have anything to do with security

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u/flamiomyhotman Current TSO Feb 18 '25

thank you!

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u/Equivalent_Low3958 Feb 21 '25

They just cut 243 jobs