KEY TAKEAWAYS:   Proposal cuts more than 9,400 TSA jobs from a 60,000-person workforce   Budget would reduce TSA funding by over $1.5 billion   Smaller airports could shift from TSA to private security screening   Additional cuts target efficiency, exit lane staffing and redundancies   The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the 60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget documents. President Donald Trump on Friday proposed requiring smaller airports to drop TSA and use private security as a first step to privatizing the agency created after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The White House said privatizing the smaller airports would cut the TSA payroll by more than 4,500 jobs. The TSA proposes to cut another 4,800 jobs by improving efficiency, ending staffing at exit lanes and eliminating redundancies. ...read more read less