According to The Washington Post, TSA Administrator Darby LaJoye spoke to Congress Wednesday about how the agency is looking to hire more officers and implementing new technology to improve the screening process to meet the growing number of Americans traveling.

Thanks to a rising number of vaccinated people and travel restrictions being lifted, over 1.6 million people were screened at airport checkpoints by TSA agents on Sunday, May 2, the highest number of passengers since March 12, 2020