President Donald Trump didn’t make a campaign promise to make air travel great again, but that’s exactly what he’s done with the upcoming announcement that TSA will no longer require passengers to take off their shoes.
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The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration will hold a press conference on Tuesday, making it official that they are putting an end to the shoe removal policy for passengers trying to get through those long lines at security at airports.
Big news from @DHSgov! ✈️👟 https://t.co/GJjd2UQMki
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) July 8, 2025
In a post on X from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, she wrote, “Big news from @DHSgov!” It included a post from a CBS News reporter which read, “Travelers no longer have to remove their shoes to get through the regular line at TSA security checkpoints at airports, @CBSNews reports.”
In a statement to Fox News, TSA said