What’s even more overdue is doing away with the giant 10+30nm radius TFRs for presidential movements. Just getting rid of the outer 30nm radius could probably fund the relief payments with the savings of fewer unnecessary intercepts. I’m not aware of a single instance where any aircraft intercepted in that ring was later found to have nefarious intentions.
And I don’t care who is president; these TFRs are all theater.
Not “theater”, “Secret Service CYA”. I’m surprised POTUS isn’t required to be shielded by a steel umbrella in case of a meteorite illegally penetrating a PTFR. Demonstrably, he’s at greater risk of lead flying horizontally, than anything coming at him vertically.
A major problem is the fact that the president has spent 13 days playing golf in Florida since his election (he’s been in office fourteen weekends (three months) since being elected). Every time he flies home to golf, he closes all nearby airports for at least two days. So while the stock market is crashing and he’s on the course whacking balls and “winning” every tournament, those airports’ incomes go to zero. Twenty-six days of financial distress for them out of the last three months…astoundingly tone-deaf, in my opinion.