No, you won't need a passport to fly commercially if you're a Missouri resident — not yet, anyway.
The federal government is apparently backing down ... or perhaps just slowing down ... its plans to force states including Missouri and Illinois onto the Real ID bandwagon. A new blog post, published by the Department of Homeland Security today, makes it clear that state-issued IDs won't become a problem for travelers for at least another 120 days.
According to the agency's post,
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