First the shoes went back on. Now, at U.S. airport security, more liquid in carry-ons may be at hand

Travelers giddy astir being capable to keep their shoes on portion walking done TSA checkpoints astatine the airdrome again whitethorn person thing other to look guardant to: changes to however overmuch liquid they tin carry.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday during a league hosted by "The Hill" that she is questioning "everything TSA does" and spoke of imaginable changes to the magnitude of liquids travelers tin tote successful their carry-on baggage.

"The liquids, I'm questioning. So that whitethorn beryllium the adjacent large announcement is what size your liquids request to be," Noem said. "We person enactment successful spot successful TSA a multilayered screening process that allows america to alteration immoderate of however we bash information and screening truthful it's inactive arsenic safe."

She gave nary details astir precisely what those changes mightiness beryllium oregon however rapidly travelers could expect to spot them.

Under the Transportation and Security Administration's existent guidance, travelers tin transportation liquids successful travel-sized containers 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) oregon little per point successful their carry-on bag. Those containers indispensable beryllium placed successful a one-quart resealable integrative bag. Bigger containers indispensable spell successful checked baggage, though determination are exceptions for medications and babe formula.

Noem announced connected July 8 that travelers were nary longer required to instrumentality their shoes disconnected portion going done screening aft a aviator programme showed TSA had the instrumentality needed to support airports and craft harmless portion allowing radical to support their shoes on.

That argumentation had been successful spot since 2006, respective years aft "shoe bomber" Richard Reid's failed effort to instrumentality down a formation from Paris to Miami successful precocious 2001.

The limits connected liquids were triggered by a 2006 incidental wherever authorities foiled a crippled to usage liquid explosives smuggled aboard carry-on luggage to stroke up planes.

Ever since the guidelines were enactment successful place, TSA checkpoints person been the country of travelers rapidly guzzling water, digging done luggage to find and discard a too-large conduit of hairsbreadth gel and chucking jars of everything from jam to bottles of java that didn't conscionable the size requirement.

The guidance besides triggered discussions — sometimes arguments — implicit what constitutes a liquid. Yogurt? Peanut butter? Jam and jelly? All are presently restricted to containers nary bigger than 3.4 ounces arsenic elaborate connected an extended database that TSA maintains connected its website titled "What tin I bring?"

Noem besides laid retired her imaginativeness for the aboriginal of airdrome question during the speech Wednesday.

"Hopefully, the aboriginal of an airport, wherever I'm looking to spell is that you locomotion successful the doorway with your carry-on suitcase, you locomotion done a scanner and spell close to your plane," Noem said. "It takes you 1 minute."