Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama have just introduced legislation that would abolish the TSA.

Instead of the TSA, the proposed measure seeks to privatize airport security with some, limited, federal oversight.

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Responding to news of the legislation on X, Sen. Mike Lee called it like it was, saying the TSA is “too much groping, too little benefit.”

Here’s that post:

Couldn’t have put it any better myself.

Sen. Mike Lee spoke to Fox News Digital about why we need to get rid of the TSA:

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epublican senators are debuting a measure on Thursday to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which they say has “intruded into the privacy and personal space” of Americans.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading the bill alongside Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

“The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives. Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees,” Lee told Fox News Digital in a statement.

The measure would officially abolish the TSA three years after being enacted into law, which the senators believe would provide time for security needs to be privatized.

The bill would also direct the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Transportation to make a reorganization plan and submit it to Congress.

In his own statement, Tuberville said, “The TSA is an inefficient, bureaucratic mess that infringes on Americans’ freedoms.”

“It’s a bloated agency—riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars—that has led to unnecessary delays, invasive pat downs and bag checks, and frustration for travelers. We need to focus on more efficient and effective methods to protect our country without sacrificing the liberties and freedoms of American citizens. The TSA should be eliminated and replaced with privatized solutions that are more targeted, streamlined, and where appropriate accountable to limited government oversight,” he added.

I think that this is a bill the vast majority of Americans can get behind.

In practice, the TSA has been nothing more than a failure, to say the least.

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In fact, they have somewhere around an 80-95% failure rate when it comes to catching items like weapons or bombs.

The Post Millennial commented:

In a one-page press release on the subject, Lee’s office wrote, arguing against the continued reliance on TSA, “In addition to widespread allegations of employee misconduct and theft, a 2015 assessment found that TSA agents missed 95% of mock explosives and banned weapons during checkpoint screenings. The 95% failure rate was repeated in 2017 at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and repeat national tests that year were ‘in the ballpark’ of 80% failure rates.”

A draft of the bill outlines how the TSA would be abolished within three years and the airline industry would move towards a model of privatization of security. Tuberville, for his part, said, “The TSA is an inefficient, bureaucratic mess that infringes on Americans’ freedoms. It’s a bloated agency—riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars—that has led to unnecessary delays, invasive pat downs and bag checks, and frustration for travelers.

Tuberville added, “We need to focus on more efficient and effective methods to protect our country without sacrificing the liberties and freedoms of American citizens. The TSA should be eliminated and replaced with privatized solutions that are more targeted, streamlined, and where appropriate accountable to limited government oversight.”

What do you think?

Would you like to see the TSA abolished?

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