Robert Echeverria quit his job with TSA two weeks into the shutdown to work for the department that manages the airports in Salt Lake.
The 45-year-old father isn’t the only TSA employee to leave the agency or change plans as tens of thousands of officers are set to receive another $0 paycheck this week.
The Associated Press reports a dispute in Congress over Department of Homeland Security funding has held up their salaries since mid-February.
Echeverria has counted five government shutdowns in the nine years he’s worked for the agency. He says the toughest was last year’s record shutdown that ended in mid-November.
More than 455 TSA agents have quit instead of weathering the ongoing uncertainty, according to DHS.
