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TSA pay may be coming, but airport delays could persist and ICE agents may not leave soon
TSA officers, nearly 50,000 strong, will start receiving paychecks after 44 days without pay amid a DHS funding impasse; ICE agents may continue airport security duties.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA officers immediately. DHS began processing payments for roughly 50,000 employees, with officials expecting checks to arrive by Monday or Tuesday.
- The shutdown reached 44 days on Sunday, leaving tens of thousands unpaid since Valentine's Day and triggering a staffing crisis. Over 12% of the workforce called out on Thursday, and nearly 500 officers quit.
- To mitigate shortages, President Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports. White House border czar Tom Homan stated agents are checking IDs and guarding exits, saying, "Every place we send ICE officers, the lines have decreased."
- Despite the pay order, experts warn security lines may remain disrupted for one or two weeks. Former TSA officer Caleb Harmon-Marshall cautioned that a single paycheck is insufficient to address the underlying staffing crisis.
- Meanwhile, Congress remains at a stalemate over DHS funding, with both chambers on a two-week recess until mid-April. This legislative break leaves the shutdown unresolved, forcing travelers to continue arriving hours early for flights.
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Miserably long airport lines ease as TSA workers start to recoup back pay
Abysmal wait times at airports started to ease Monday morning as tens of thousands of Transportation Security Administration workers began receiving back pay after more than a month without a paycheck.
ICE may remain at airports even after TSA pay resumes, border czar says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could remain at U.S. airports, where President Donald Trump had sent them to respond to a shortage of security employees during a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, even after those employees are paid again, Trump’s chief border official said Sunday.
ICE's Paid Patriots Guarding Airport Exits
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Abby Zimet As airports reach peak chaos amidst a government shutdown and massive departures by unpaid TSA agents, the regime’s evil idiots moved to resolve their new quagmire by sending in the same brutal, ill-trained, much-despised ICE goons who caused the shutdown—and whose past abuses and corruption now daily come to light. The Beckett-esque result: Images of cranky travelers standing up to s…
Trump's TSA Pay Fix May Not End Long Airport Lines: Here's Why - United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ:UAL)
Even as President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees, airport lines could still linger in the coming months. Staffing Woes At TSA On Sunday, Business Insider reported that the queues could still be around even after the paycheck approval due to staffing shortages, citing Ha Nguyen McNeill, who serves as the TSA’s Deputy Admin…
TSA agents to begin receiving paychecks again following Trump executive order
Monday could mark the beginning of the end of chaos at U.S. airports as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents are expected to begin getting a paycheck again, even though Congress has not agreed to a funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security.President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week directing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA agents immediately. Agents have been working without pay s…
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