Good afternoon everyone. I am Christine Nome. I am the Secretary of Homeland Security.Thank you so much for coming out today. We have some very exciting news to announce that today we have started a new nosho policy with the Department uh the Transportation Security Administration TSA will no longer require travelers to remove their shoes when they go through our security checkpoints. Um, this is something that I know for quite some time people have talked about and discussed and we know that when President ...

Many many people will be on airlines traveling in and out of our airports and it's important that we find ways to keep people safe but also streamline and make the process much more enjoyable for every single person. TSA first implemented the no-sh policy in 2006 almost 20 years ago. And in those 20 years uh since that policy was put in place our security technology has changed dramatically.It's evolved. TSA has changed. We have a multi-layered a whole of government approach now to security and to the envir ...