TSA Agents to Be paid as Early as Monday, DHS Says

Agents from the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, will get their payments as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order the Department of Homeland Security set on Friday, shortly after Trump's order. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30, the agency said in a statement. Earlier in the day, Trump signed an executive order to pay TSA agents who have not received a check since the DHS entered a partial shutdown in mid-February. I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, the memorandum stated. The move came in response to long TSA lines at airports around the country and as lawmakers struggled to reach a deal on funding for DHS. The Senate early Friday passed a measure to fund most of DHS, except for its immigration enforcement operations, but House Speaker Mike Johnson said that House Republicans rejected this plan and the lower chamber will instead vote on a 60-day stopgap to fund DHS.