Tsa Expected To End Shoes-off Policy At Many Airports Across Us

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are expected to rotation backmost nan "shoes-off" airdrome information protocol astatine a Tuesday property convention successful Washington.

DHS sources confirmed a 5 p.m. ET announcement astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, pursuing wide reporting that TSA will let much passengers going done security to region their shoes.

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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said ending nan protocol is "big news from @DHSgov" in a station to X.

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The argumentation was first implemented successful 2006 and was prompted by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, a British national pinch ties to al-Qaeda, who attempted to detonate explosives he had hidden successful his shoes connected an American Airlines formation from Paris to Miami successful December 2001.

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A traveler interacts pinch a Transportation Security Administration supplier astatine John Wayne Airport successful Santa Ana, California, May 7, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"TSA and DHS are ever exploring caller and innovative ways to heighten nan rider acquisition and our beardown information posture," a TSA spokesperson said successful a statement. "Any imaginable updates to our information process will beryllium issued done charismatic channels."

TSA PreCheck and partners CLEAR, IDEMIA and Telos person kept passengers from taking their shoes disconnected successful information for a number of years, but nan latest alteration would effect everyone walking done nan main information line.

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Transportation Security Administration agents verify passengers' identities connected a checkpoint astatine Miami International Airport, May 7, 2025. (Pedro Portal/The Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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This alteration comes arsenic the Trump administration’s TSA looks to alleviate immoderate of nan hassles of travel, and just past week began rolling retired a caller information lane exclusively for active-duty work members.

Preston Mizell is simply a writer pinch Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston

Preston Mizell is simply a writer pinch Fox News Digital covering breaking news.

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