I just had to pay to renew my TSA PreCheck. Because why? They already know my threat risk (zero), and in paying them again nothing changed except they took more money from me.
I think this is kinda true because my wife was involved in a customs incident and then was unable to renew pre check for a bunch of years, thought that was never given as a reason.
They are tracking each and every one of us already, it's just a scam. Of course the bigger scam is TSA as a whole -- security theater at $11B per year.
Of course none of this matters for the elite because they just go to their private jets and don't have to deal with any of the indignities we human cattle go through.
Otherwise that's a pretty gaping loophole. "Get Precheck and then go to terrorist training camp, you're safe for a few years".
(All of this is notwithstanding the fact that all of this is absolute garbage security theater, and I say that as someone with Pre and Clear.
In before we have to start renewing our birth certificates each year too.