Travel Chaos Looms as Feds Promise — Finally — To Begin Enforcing Real ID Requirements for Domestic Air Travel

Calling the new identification cards a ‘tool for control of Americans,’ libertarians are urging President Trump to push back the enforcement date for the Real ID.

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Travelers at the Tom Brady International Terminal at Los Angeles, California, on August 30, 2023. AP/Dean Musgrove

Libertarians are urging President Trump to push back the enforcement date for the Real ID or kill the new federal issuing standards altogether, which have been two decades in the making. Fears of chaos at airports next month are rising as millions of Americans will soon lack the necessary documentation to fly domestically.

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