Long airport lines and failure theater
Inside the congressional standoff Read in browser Airline passengers' dread of security lines has reached a whole new level in recent weeks, with the Department of Homeland Security's screeners going unpaid. Bloomberg News congressional reporter Steven T. Dennis writes about how we got here and when we might have a deal . Plus: The strange story of the professors who got tangled up in a charismatic tech CEO's alleged Ponzi scheme, and how Mexico's budget is starving its cultural treasures (free link) . If this newsletter was forwarded to you, click here to sign up . It's pretty rare for a single American life to prompt a five-week government shutdown, but that's what happened when federal agents riddled Alex Pretti's body with bullets in Minneapolis in January. Ever since, appalled Senate Democrats have demanded major reforms to immigration enforcement operations before allowing full funding for the Department of Homeland Security to pass. The depart...