The agency signed a deal to buy the new threads just a week before the automatic cuts took place. TSA says they needed the uniforms but more than a few in Washington call the deal “absolutely outrageous.”

Marsha Blackburn, a representative from Tennessee told  Politico “I find it deeply disturbing that as Secretary Napolitano is running around scaring people by saying she is going to have to furlough employees because of sequester, that she would also spend $50 million of taxpayer money on new uniforms. This is a classic failure in leadership.”

This week TSA also announced they will allow small knives in airplanes. That decision upset several families of people who died on 9/11.

TSA said on Wednesday that they would allow the knives because they didn’t offer a significant threat. TSA head John Pistole said too much time looking for small items “may detract us from that item that could be catastrophic failure to an aircraft.”

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