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Moving TSA into DOT aims to centralize transportation security to improve coordination and reduce administrative duplication, but it risks disrupting homeland-security authority, politicizing oversight, imposing transition costs, and creating uncertainty for federal employees.
Air travelers, transportation agencies, and TSA personnel: TSA is moved under DOT management, which could improve coordination between aviation security and broader transportation policy.
Taxpayers and federal employees: Authorities and delegations are centralized under the Secretary of Transportation, potentially reducing duplicated administrative overhead and lowering long-term administrative costs.
License, permit, grant, contract holders and applicants: Existing licenses, permits, grants, contracts, and pending proceedings remain unchanged, preserving current rights and benefits.
Air travelers, law-enforcement, and transportation workers: Transferring TSA from DHS to DOT could disrupt established homeland-security lines of authority and weaken coordination on security-focused missions.
Taxpayers and state governments: Centralizing TSA within DOT could politicize security decisions and change oversight and accountability for transportation security.
Taxpayers: Implementing the transfer would incur short-term administrative, legal, and logistical transition costs funded by taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Moves all TSA functions from the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Transportation and preserves legal continuity for orders, contracts, and litigation.
Official title: To transfer to the Secretary of Transportation the functions of the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 7, 2026 by Jared Moskowitz · Last progress May 7, 2026
Transfers all authorities, functions, personnel-related effects, and legal responsibilities of the Transportation Security Administration from the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Transportation so that DOT performs TSA functions. It preserves existing orders, licenses, grants, suits, and other legal instruments after the transfer and authorizes the receiving official to exercise the same authorities previously held by the TSA Administrator for the transferred functions.