Camilleri Objects To Noem Video

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 10/16/2025) The Wayne County Airport Authority is asking the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to stop airing a video at the security checkpoint in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blames the federal shutdown on Democrats. The request comes after the airports at Grand Rapids and Lansing have opted not to play the video.

However, Detroit-Wayne County (DTW) Metro does not operate the checkpoint monitors at its airport. They're located in TSA-leased space. The situation has Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton), whose district includes DTW, writing directly to Noem to ask that she “immediately cease broadcasting this inappropriate and partisan message."

He said the “divisive political message is a misuse of her official position and an abuse of the public's trust.”

“This action is in direct conflict with the principles of the Hatch Act of 1939, which clearly prohibits the use of official federal positions or government resources for partisan political purposes,” Camilleri wrote. "The law is specifically designed to prevent both the appearance and the reality of a politicized federal workforce. By using your title and taxpayer-funded TSA infrastructure to assign blame for a government shutdown along party lines, you are engaging in the very ‘pernicious political activities’ the Act was designed to prevent.

In reaction, DTW posted a sign outside the security checkpoints that made it clear that the airport does not operate the checkpoint monitors and that the TSA did not ask for approval to play the message.