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TSA employees receive back pay after Trump’s executive order

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TSA employees receive back pay after Trump’s executive order Airport wait times appear to be shorter as workers received back pay for two whole paychecks Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Chris Stein in Washington Tue 31 Mar 2026 07.53 AEDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued its employees back pay on Monday, after Donald Trump signed an order for them to be paid even as a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security drags on, with no end in sight.

The paychecks appear to have relieved severe congestion at airport TSA checkpoints, which resulted in hours-long lines at several major air hubs over the past two weeks but brought Congress no closer to resolving the standoff over the the DHS’s budget. “Most TSA employees received a retroactive paycheck today that included at least two full paychecks,” said Lauren Bis, the acting assistant secretary of public affairs at the DHS. She noted the agency was “working aggressively” to send a third half-paycheck that employees are owed. US reopens embassy in Venezuela in significant thawing of relations Read more “TSA officers are grateful to President Trump and Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin for their leadership to put money back into the pockets of TSA employees who worked without pay during the ongoing Democrat DHS shutdown. Working without pay forced more than 500 officers to leave TSA and thousands were forced to call out,” she said.

Source: TSA employees receive back pay after Trump’s executive order | Trump administration | The Guardian

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Shock and disbelief at Houston airport as 36% of TSA officers call out of work: “This is insane”

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Travelers at a Houston airport voiced shock and disbelief over seemingly endless TSA security lines caused by a severe staffing shortage.  “This is insane,” one traveler said. “This is the first time I’ve experienced something like this in my entire life,” said another. The line at George Bush Intercontinental Airport snaked underground, across terminals and even outside as 36% of TSA officers there called out of work amid a partial government shutdown that has frozen their paychecks.

Source: Shock and disbelief at Houston airport as 36% of TSA officers call out of work: “This is insane” – CBS News

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Elon Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries As DHS Shutdown Drags On

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Elon Musk recently offered to personally cover the salaries of TSA agents as a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown stretches into its second month, leaving tens of thousands of federal workers without pay.“I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,” Musk wrote Saturday on X.The proposal comes as Congress remains deadlocked over funding for DHS, which oversees the TSA.

While most of the federal government has been funded, DHS has been left out of a broader agreement, triggering a prolonged lapse that is now rippling across the country’s airports.The shutdown has left TSA officers, who are classified as essential employees, working without pay, a situation that has translated into staffing shortages and mounting delays.At major hubs including Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, security wait times have reportedly stretched beyond three hours. Footage out of Philadelphia showed hundreds of passengers backed up through escalators and checkpoints in the early morning hours.

Source: Elon Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries As DHS Shutdown Drags On

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