Good Grief: Duckworth Calls For Return To Taking Off Your Shoes At Airport Security

Really? Really? This is what she’s all butthurt about? Let’s not forget that members of Congress are usually given an escort to skip the security line

TSA urged to bring back controversial airport security rule abandoned last summer: ‘Reckless act’

A Democratic senator has called on the Department of Homeland Security to re-introduce the controversial “shoes off” rule for travelers at airports – branding the decision to ditch it as “reckless and dangerous.”

Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) blasted former Secretary Kristi Noem, who announced last July the policy had been abandoned almost 20 years after it was first rolled out at US airports.

“Secretary Noem’s decision to implement a shoes on policy on July 8, 2025, likely without meaningful consultation with TSA [Transportation Security Administration], was a reckless act,” she wrote in the letter addressed to its acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill, seen by CBS News.

Duckworth issued the blistering warning – just months after an investigation by DHS’ internal watchdog found scanners could not screen shoes effectively.

“Allowing a potentially catastrophic security deficiency to remain in place for seven months and counting betrays TSA’s mission,” the lawmaker blasted.

I typically fly at least once a year, visit the parents for Christmas, maybe fly somewhere else for vacation. I haven’t been required to take off my shoes for like 4 years at Newark. RDU for like 3 years. They’ve stopped requiring separate bins for computers and stuff. Do not even have to take the computer out of the bag. Is Tammy butthurt because Noem under Trump put this policy in place?

Seriously, after putting in the shoes policy in 2006 has anyone been caught with a bomb or anything else?

The policy, which had been in place since 2006, was ditched just months before millions of tourists are expected to flock to the US for America 250 celebrations and the World Cup.

Officially ditched, because airports around the country have quietly ditched the policy. Most nations do not require taking shoes off. Those who did generally only required if taking an international flight to the US. And, really, if someone wanted to have shoe bombs, they could have just used TSA PreCheck, which doesn’t require taking shoes off for scanning.

I know, let’s make Tammy go through security just like the rest of us and make her take her shoes off.