Editing Transportation Security Administration (section)

=== Finances ===
For fiscal year 2020, the TSA had a budget of roughly $7.68 billion.<ref name=FY-2020-budget>{{cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ93/pdf/PLAW-116publ93.pdf |title=Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 20, 2019 |website=govinfo.gov |publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]] |access-date=December 31, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104023613/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ93/pdf/PLAW-116publ93.pdf |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |quote=For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security Administration for operations and support, $7,680,565,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Budget<ref name=FY-2020-budget />
! $ Million
! Share
|- align="RIGHT"
| align="left" |Operations and Support
| 4,850
| 63%
|- align="RIGHT"
| align="left" |Procurement, Construction, and Improvements
| 110
| 1.4%
|- align="RIGHT"
| align="left" |Research and Development
| 23
| 0.3%
|- align="RIGHT"
| align="left" |Not specified
| 2,697
| 35%
|- align="RIGHT"
| align="left" |'''Total'''
| 7,680
| 100%
|}

Part of the TSA budget comes from a $5.60 per-passenger fee, also known as the [[September 11 attacks|September 11]] Security Fee, for each one-way air-travel trip originating in the United States, not to exceed $11.20 per round-trip. In 2020, this passenger fee totaled $2.4 billion or roughly 32% of the budget allocated by Congress that year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/security-fees |title=Security Fees - Transportation Security Administration |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.tsa.gov |publisher=Transportation Security Administration |access-date=December 31, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223224501/https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/security-fees |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |quote=The Passenger Fee, also known as the September 11 Security Fee, is collected by air carriers from passengers at the time air transportation is purchased.  Air carriers then remit the fees to TSA. The fee is currently $5.60 per one-way trip in air transportation that originates at an airport in the U.S., except that the fee imposed per round trip shall not exceed $11.20. Passenger Fee Fiscal Year 2020 Total Collection $2,456,587,000}}</ref>

Additionally, a small portion of TSA's budget comes from the loose change and small denomination cash left behind by travelers at airport security checkpoints, which TSA has been allowed to retain since 2005 under Section 44945 of title 49, United States Code. From FY 2008 through FY 2018, a total of $6,904,035.98 has been left behind, including a record $960,105.49 in FY 2018.<ref>{{cite book |last=Gayden |first=Greg |date=2017 |title=Commercial Aviation 101|url=http://www.dfwtower.com/101/CommercialAviation101.pdf |location=Dallas |publisher=443 Critical |page=43 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108092337/http://www.dfwtower.com/101/CommercialAviation101.pdf |archive-date=November 8, 2020}}
</ref> In fiscal year 2019, $926,030.44 was unclaimed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/loose-chanage-report-2019-3.18.20.pdf |title=Unclaimed Money at Airports in Fiscal Year 2019 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=March 18, 2020 |website=www.tsa.gov |publisher=Transportation Security Administration |access-date=December 31, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120174240/https://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/loose-chanage-report-2019-3.18.20.pdf |archive-date=November 20, 2020 |quote=In FY 2019, TSA collected $926,030.44. On September 30, 2019, TSA had a total of $3,618,696 in resources remaining from unclaimed money collected in FY 2019 and prior years. Of this, TSA has: Obligated $2,100,000 for training and development, of which $996,475.51 was expended during the year, and Spent $32,150 from prior-year obligations on printing and distributing bookmarks at checkpoints nationwide to publicize the TSA Pre✓® program.}}</ref>