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Trump to sign emergency order to get TSA agents paid — bypassing Congress in DHS shutdown fight
The New York Post ^ | 03/26/2026 | Emily Goodin

Posted on 03/26/2026 6:33:03 PM PDT by thegagline

President Trump announced on Thursday he will sign an emergency order to pay TSA agents and hopefully relieve congestion at the nation’s largest airports.

*** “Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!” Trump said. “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!,” he wrote.

His announcement came as Republicans and Democrats struggle to fund the department and as Transportation Security Administration employees faced a second month without a paycheck.

Under the National Emergency Act, the president could order unspent government funds to be used to temporarily pay TSA employees — a move that would bypass Congress.

Republicans have the majority in the Senate but lack the 60 votes needed to advance DHS funding in the legislative process. Democrats have blocked funding for the department for the past month while trying to tighten rules on immigration enforcement tactics.***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; dhs; monopolymoney; paychecks; trump

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Trump values Americans. The Democrats value illegals over Americans. It is that simple.
1 posted on 03/26/2026 6:33:03 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Will the Dhims file lawsuit preventing Trump to do so? I’d say they would be foolish to do so...


2 posted on 03/26/2026 6:36:45 PM PDT by paudio (Charlie Kirk is this era's MLK)
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A little off topic, but whatever happened to that POS Mayorkas? I haven’t heard hide nor hair from him since we won. Why haven’t we dragged his slimy ass in front of Congress or the DOJ? It’s like he’s disappeared, just like when he was working.


3 posted on 03/26/2026 6:40:37 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: thegagline

Screw the jackasses in Congress. Their constituents are getting more tax dollars than you can shake a stick at. IHOP was loaded with illegal alien thieves and their extended families today. Porking out on those pancakes. They’re getting fatter than they were when they came over Darien Gap.


4 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Welcome to Chicago. The wrong place at the wrong time! Hope you brought a gun. Gov. Prixster.)
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To: thegagline

We still need to take care of Coast Guard, Decret Service, FEMA, Etc.


5 posted on 03/26/2026 6:41:55 PM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (That's)
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We still need to take care the Coast Guard, Secret Service and FEMA etc.


6 posted on 03/26/2026 6:43:13 PM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (That's)
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To: thegagline

Will it work though, I mean will TSA agents now get their pay?


7 posted on 03/26/2026 6:45:45 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: wrcase

I want to see that POS in a prison cell for the rest of his miserable life for what he did


8 posted on 03/26/2026 6:46:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: thegagline

Use the tariff money.


9 posted on 03/26/2026 6:46:53 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: thegagline

No problem, but no tariff money for all., ✖️


10 posted on 03/26/2026 6:47:16 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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Yes ! I was hoping for this !!


11 posted on 03/26/2026 6:48:32 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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End TSA, cut government, not fund it.


12 posted on 03/26/2026 6:50:48 PM PDT by Theoria
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"...the president could order unspent government funds"

WHAT "unspent funds"? They are spending TWO TRILLION more every year than they take in. Is there a secret stash sitting somewhere?

13 posted on 03/26/2026 6:51:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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The only thing that I could find out about Mayorkas post-Biden presidency, is that he was at the John F Kennedy Forum where he slammed sanctuary cities.
More can be found here: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/6/mayorkas-iop-sanctuary-cities/


14 posted on 03/26/2026 6:52:58 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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Puttin Americans ahead of Chunky’s slave laborers illegally hanging out in our country. Schumer needs to get his House boy, King Hakeem busy sending some of their extra voters back home where they belong.


15 posted on 03/26/2026 6:55:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Welcome to Chicago. The wrong place at the wrong time! Hope you brought a gun. Gov. Prixster.)
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Unspent funds. It is like having a Master Card with a $30,000 limit and an unpaid balance of $29,000. Therefore, you have $1000 of unspent money.


16 posted on 03/26/2026 6:58:05 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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End TSA, cut government, not fund it.

That would be optimal. Some debt trivia:

The last president to reduce the national debt was Calvin Coolidge.
The last president to bring the national debt to zero was Andrew Jackson

17 posted on 03/26/2026 7:13:18 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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Schumer needs to get his House boy, King Hakeem

I will not admit that I laughed at that comment. (That comment tickled my funny bone.)

18 posted on 03/26/2026 7:16:32 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: thegagline

This is not a good precedent.

Any time someone wants something, just issue an executive order or emergency edict.

That’s bringing us ever closer to kingly government. Just wait until some communist obamunist gets into office with this.

It makes my head hurt.


19 posted on 03/26/2026 7:24:48 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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20 posted on 03/26/2026 7:29:30 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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