Taxes, Trials and TSA Checkpoints Bog Down on Federal Sick Days
- Meat production slowed, TSA checkpoints shut, trails postponed
- ‘There are inevitable failures ahead in government programs’
Residents stand in a line at a Covid-19 testing site in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Jan. 5.
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Passengers at the Phoenix airport had to be funneled into consolidated checkpoints because so many security agents called in sick. In a San Jose, California, courtroom, a federal judge postponed the highly anticipated fraud trial of Theranos Inc.’s former president because jurors can’t be brought in to fill out questionnaires.
And at supermarkets from coast to coast consumers could soon be paying even more for ground beef as meat-packing plants and slaughterhouses have slowed production because of a lack of government inspectors.