A federal government initiative that included four governments and gave homeland security the authority to monitor airline people has been shuttered by the Trump presidency.
Homeland Security Sec. The Transportation Security Administration’s Quiet Skies Program, which was established in 2012 to gather information on people who raised issues of national security, was ended, according to Kelly Noem on Thursday evening. Noem also demanded that Congress look into how the program was used by government agencies, and maybe to use it to track people for political purposes.
Noem said in a statement that it is obvious that the Quiet Skies programme was employed as a social rolodex of the Biden Administration and used to foment its political enemy to gain their well-heeled buddies. ” I’m calling for a legislative investigation to uncover more fraud that harms the American people and undermines US national protection,” I said.
I’m announcing today that TSA will shut down its Quiet Skies Program, which has failed to stop a second terrorist attack and has cost US citizens about$ 200 million annually.
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— Secretary Kristi Noem ( @Sec_Noem ) June 5, 2025
The Quiet Skies system and how people of all cultures are swept up in it without reason, including by the Biden administration, have received attention from a number of Senate and House Republicans.
Rand Paul (R-KY), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made an exposé in May that the TSA had tracked Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, for unnamed motives that Republicans have claimed boiled down to politicians.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) allegedly contacted TSA on Wednesday about her husband’s being subjected to increased testing. The senator allegedly lobbied past TSA Administrator David Pekoske to provide her father a blanket provision from the plan, according to the office.
Taxpayers in the United States spend roughly$ 200 million annually on the Quiet Skies Program.
Noem’s closure of the program will largely intact TSA as an organization, but employees who were escorted onto planes and through flights will be redirected to their regular jobs.
Noem stated that TSA’s crucial aircraft and safety vetting functions may be carried out, and that the Trump Administration will return the organization’s real goal of ensuring the safety and security of its passengers. This includes restoring the law’s dignity, protection, and similar program for all Americans.
