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  "description": "TSA agents have not been paid since the partial shutdown started on Feb. 14, but that doesn't every affect every airport.",
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  "textContent": "## Yes.\n\nSecurity agents at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport are being paid during the partial government shutdown that is affecting the Department of Homeland Security.\n\nThe Sioux Falls airport is one of 20 across the United States that uses a private company for security screenings and not Transportation Security Administration agents. Instead, the airport participates in the Screening Partnership Program.\n\nSouth Dakota News Watch Quiz - GigafactGigafact\n\n“This program is funded for the year, so our screeners continue to receive pay,” airport executive director Dan Letellier told SiouxFalls.Business, adding that security agents in Sioux Falls receive the same TSA training.\n\nMajor airports that privatize security include San Francisco International Airport and Kansas City International Airport in Missouri.\n\nTSA agents have not been paid since the partial shutdown started on Feb. 14, leading to more than 450 agents quitting and others being absent. On Sunday, almost 12% of workers TSA agents didn’t show up to work.\n\n_This fact brief responds to conversations such as_  this one.\n\n## Sources\n\nNewsweek, Full list of US airports with no TSA — and no long lines\n\nSiouxFalls.Business, Sioux Falls Regional Airport should escape TSA delays\n\nAxios, TSA staffing crisis escalates as agents quit, stay home\n\n* * *\n\nSouth Dakota News Watch partners with Gigafact to publish fact briefs that refute or confirm a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context. Send questions or feedback to _news@sdnewswatch.org_. Submit a question for us to answer on the tipline.\n\n****Support fact briefs.**** Help us fight misinformation by supporting fact briefs that refute or confirm a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.\n\n\n                            Donate\n                        \n\nShare your thoughts on this story\n\n_**South Dakota News Watch** is an independent nonprofit. Read, donate and subscribe for free at _sdnewswatch.org_.**Contact freelance reporter Michael Klinski:** michael.klinski@sdnewswatch.org._",
  "title": "Fact brief: Is security at the Sioux Falls airport being paid during partial shutdown?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-05T01:09:39.082Z"
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