Sacramento International Airport (SMF) issued a warning to travelers about longer wait times for security lines during a partial government shutdown.
Because of that shutdown, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are working without pay again. Hours-long delays are slowing travel at airports nationwide.
“Absentees are up. A lot of times, people just find it impossible to get here. They don’t have anyone to take care of their kids. They don’t have gas money to put in their cars,” said James Mudrock, the vice president for the Northern California American Federation of Government Employees, local 1260…