The TSA has made enemies of conservatives for years with its invasive screening procedures.
A Trump cabinet official's daughter just experienced their worst.
And Sean Duffy's daughter went straight to America with this horrific allegation about how the TSA treated her baby.
TSA agents pressure pregnant woman into radiation scanner
Evita Duffy-Alfonso made headlines when she blasted the TSA after what she described as an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at airport security.
The 26-year-old conservative journalist and eldest daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shared her nightmare experience on X.
"I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I'm pregnant and didn't feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner," Duffy-Alfonso wrote.¹
What happened next shows exactly why millions of Americans have had enough of the TSA's security theater.
"The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it's 'safe,'" Duffy-Alfonso explained. "After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight."¹
Here's a pregnant woman trying to protect her unborn child from unnecessary radiation exposure and TSA agents respond by bullying her and making her wait so long she nearly missed her flight.
That's the TSA in action.
Conservative voice calls TSA "unconstitutional agency"
Duffy-Alfonso didn't hold back in her assessment of what the TSA has become.
She called the agency "unconstitutional" and slammed it for conducting what amounts to "unreasonable, warrantless searches of passengers and their property."²
The young conservative commentator, who co-founded The Chicago Thinker at the University of Chicago and contributes to The Federalist, knows her constitutional law.
"TSA = unreasonable, warrantless searches of passengers and their property. That means it violates the Fourth Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional," Duffy-Alfonso wrote in a separate post.²
She even took aim at the CLEAR program that allows travelers to pay extra money to skip the long TSA lines.
The fact that Americans have to purchase private services to avoid harassment from their own government tells you everything you need to know about how broken this system has become.
When social media users pointed out she could talk to her father about TSA problems, Duffy-Alfonso set the record straight on who actually runs the agency.
"TSA is under DHS, which is run by Kristi Noem," she replied. "If he did have TSA, he'd radically limit it and lobby Congress to abolish it."¹
Republicans already fighting to abolish TSA
Duffy-Alfonso's call to abolish the TSA isn't some radical new idea.
Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama introduced the Abolish TSA Act of 2025 in March.³
"The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives," Lee stated.³
The bill would phase out the TSA over three years and replace it with private security firms under a new Office of Aviation Security Oversight within the Federal Aviation Administration.
Tuberville called the TSA "an inefficient, bureaucratic mess that infringes on Americans' freedoms."³
He's absolutely right. The agency has become bloated with 65,000 employees who screened 904 million passengers in 2024.
That's a lot of federal workers conducting warrantless searches on American citizens who are just trying to travel.
The TSA was created after 9/11 when the country was desperate for increased security. But like most government agencies, it quickly grew into an unaccountable bureaucratic monster.
Before the September 11 attacks, private security companies handled airport screening. The system worked fine. Then the federal government decided it needed to federalize airport security and the TSA was born.
Now we have federal agents pressuring pregnant women to expose themselves to radiation and conducting "absurdly invasive" pat-downs that make travelers miss their flights.
Republicans have been trying to rein in or abolish the TSA for years.
The problem is Democrat lawmakers defend the bloated agency because they love big government solutions to every problem.
But Duffy-Alfonso's experience shows why this agency needs to go. American travelers deserve better than to be treated like criminals by their own government just for boarding an airplane.
The TSA has failed security tests repeatedly. It violates Americans' Fourth Amendment rights. And it harasses pregnant women who are trying to protect their unborn children.
If Republicans take control of Congress, abolishing the TSA needs to be at the top of the agenda.
Oh wait, they have control of Congress. Well, maybe when the RINOs in leadership have doled out enough taxpayer goodies to cronies all over the world, they could get to that along with the promises about the FBI and everything else.
¹ Ronny Reyes, "Sean Duffy's daughter calls for govt to abolish TSA after 'invasive pat-down' at airport," New York Post, December 18, 2025.
² Ronny Reyes, "Sean Duffy's daughter calls for govt to abolish TSA after 'invasive pat-down' at airport," New York Post, December 18, 2025.
³ "Republicans Propose Bill to Abolish TSA," AirlineGeeks.com, March 28, 2025.
