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  • Elon Musk offers to pay TSA salaries amid budget battle, airport lineups

    03/21/2026 10:46:07 AM PDT · by PROCON · 32 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 21, 2026 | y Mike Scarcella; Editing by Sergio Non, Rod Nickel
    WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said on Saturday he would cover the paychecks of U.S. Transportation Security Administration ​officers during their second unpaid work stoppage in six months ‌amid a protracted federal funding lapse. The budget impasse over funding for the TSA’s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is in its fifth week. Screeners ​and other TSA personnel are days away from missing a second ​full paycheck, but are being pressured to show up ⁠as screening times at some airports stretch on for hours.“I would like ​to offer to pay the...