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Booker on Trump Paying TSA: ‘Why Didn’t He Do This Weeks Ago’
TSA employees missed weeks of pay during a 44-day shutdown causing staffing shortages and long lines, with nearly 12% calling out, officials said.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to pay Transportation Security Administration employees; workers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.
- The partial government shutdown, which began on Valentine's Day, reached 44 days on Sunday; nationwide, more than 11.8% of TSA employees missed work on Thursday, with some airports reporting call-out rates of about 40 percent.
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport expects backpay for 600 workers beginning Monday, while Baltimore-Washington International Airport noted Sunday that checkpoint wait times improved from Saturday but remain longer than normal.
- Federal immigration officers remain deployed at some airports to assist with security lines; "We'll be there as long as they need us," Homan told CBS' Face the Nation.
- Former TSA officer Caleb Harmon-Marshall warned that security lines may take weeks to stabilize even after paychecks resume; "If it's only for a pay period, that's not enough," he said, citing nearly 500 staff who have quit.
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Booker on Trump paying TSA: ‘Why didn’t he do this weeks ago’
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday criticized President Trump over paying Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers amid the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. “I just want to continue to emphasize that we are seeing a colossal failure in presidential leadership. Because this president has said, again, ‘I have the power to pay TSA…
Border czar Tom Homan reveals when TSA will start getting paid again following Trump’s executive order
WASHINGTON — TSA airport screeners could be paid as soon as Monday — after President Trump signed an executive order, border czar Tom Homan revealed. It’s been 43 days since TSA workers — who make an average of $49,000 per year — have been paid, thanks to a Democrat-led partial government…
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TSA pay may be coming, but airport delays could persist and ICE agents may not leave soon
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Trump orders DHS to pay TSA agents during agency shutdown
President Trump on Friday directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees during the government shutdown, marking a key development as funding the agency stalls in Congress. “As President of the United States, I have determined that these circumstances constitute an emergency situation compromising the Nation’s security,” Trump said in [...]
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