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Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees Presidential Memoranda March 27, 2026 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT: Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees As the Democrat-caused shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues well into its sixth week, America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point. This is an unprecedented emergency situation. Currently, more than 60,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees, including approximately 50,000 transportation security officers who perform security functions at domestic airports, are not being paid due to...

The US Senate has voted to end a partial 40-day government shutdown, approving funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - but with immigration enforcement excluded. The almost six-week funding lapse has had a knock-on effect on air travel in the US. Airport security workers' salaries are paid by the DHS, and hundreds have quit since the shutdown began. Democrats had refused to agree a funding deal without reforms to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but the Senate reached unanimous agreement in the early hours of Friday morning after stripping ICE and parts of border protection...

With the Democrats' continued refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until their woke Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demands are met, President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening in a Truth Social post that he was signing an executive order directing DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA workers.Trump emphasized in his post that it was the Democrats' fault, led by Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), that Transportation Security Administration workers hadn't been paid, and that was because Democrats prioritize criminal illegal immigrants over American citizens:The Radical Left Democrats, and their “Leader,” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, have made...

Breaking update: President Trump announced he has instructed the Department of Homeland Security to pay the TSA Agents. Trump said he will sign an order instructing DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA agents. “The Radical Left Democrats, and their “Leader,” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is, ON THE SIDE OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter...

Americans are now seeing ICE agents as they shuffle through these historically long airport lines, not arresting and kidnapping! people, but handing out water bottles and shaking hands with the citizens they work to protect. The flame is burning at both ends for the Left: they’re defending illegal criminals at the expense of Americans, while ICE gets a PR boost for dissolving an airport bottleneck that Democrats created. ICE deployed to Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston has drastically improved security wait times — and more importantly, Americans are meeting these officers in the flesh, share a laugh, and realize that maybe...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel are equipped to assist airport screeners after receiving two days of training, the head of the Transportation Security Administration told lawmakers on Wednesday, who said the agents and officers are checking travelers’ identification and managing crowd control. Ha Nguyen McNeill, the current TSA chief, repeatedly expressed her gratitude to ICE for easing the burden on her workforce during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing. The agency is facing severe shortages as employees increasingly call out due to the ongoing Homeland Security Department shutdown, which has forced staff to work without immediate pay. ICE began deploying...

The TSA showdown reveals a brutal truth about our politics America’s newest political battlefield runs through one of the most miserable places in the country: the airport.Democrats have held up funding for the Department of Homeland Security amid their ongoing war over ICE, and after a month without pay, TSA employees have started refusing to come to work. The result has been crippling delays at major airports, with waits stretching four hours or more and turning an already degraded flying experience into something closer to a public humiliation ritual.The GOP theoretically holds the levers of power, but in practice...

Cory Booker speaking to an empty Newark Airport with no lines saying, “Donald Trump has bought chaos to our airports.”

According to the Times, Lopez-Jimenez and her daughter had been ordered removed from the country in 2019 after she missed an immigration court hearing. The newspaper reported that TSA officials identified the pair on Friday and alerted ICE ahead of their planned Sunday trip.

WASHINGTON — Airline passengers are experiencing some of the highest security wait times in the 25-year-history of the Transportation Security Administration — with some taking more than four-and-a-half hours to make it through checkpoints, a top official told Congress Wednesday. TSA acting administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified to the House Homeland Security Committee that her beleaguered agency is “being forced to consolidate” and “may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers.” “It is a fluid, challenging and unpredictable situation. We understand this is frustrating and disruptive,” she added. “This is unacceptable.” More than 480 Transportation...

Travelers are waiting in 270-minute-long queues at America's busiest airports after nearly half the Transportation Security Administration officers called off work. Wait times have reached nearly five hours at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas after 42 percent of TSA staff called out Tuesday. Security queues snaked around the Houston airport and through an underground tunnel as staff warned travelers whose flights were departing 'soon' that they 'may not clear security in time,' CNN reported.Nearly 50 percent of staff at Houston's Hobby Airport called off Monday, but chaos has since calmed at the Southwest hub with security wait times...

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that more than 400 Transportation Security Administration workers have quit their jobs so far since the start of the partial government shutdown last month. Airports nationwide are experiencing a TSA staffing shortage because workers are not being paid amid the shutdown, which began Feb. 14. President Donald Trump has sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports to help with the shortage. Acting DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told The Hill that thousands of TSA employees have also used sick days because they are missing payments on things outside the workforce. The shortage...

WASHINGTON — Delta Air Lines is punishing Congress for failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The airline company has temporarily yanked its special congressional desk service to lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill until Congress finally funds the DHS, which has been in a partial shutdown since Feb. 28. “Due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shutdown, Delta will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta,” the company said in a statement first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Democrats have refused to pass funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). That helped to cause chaos at the airports after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had hundreds of its employees quit because they weren't being paid. Then, too, some are calling in sick. The wait times to get through security ballooned up to hours, with mammoth lines. Not only that, but it puts all of us in a more dangerous situation when the whole of the DHS isn't being funded and protecting our security. Democrats put their political agenda against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over their...

LaGuardia Airport has now experienced two deadly tragedies exactly 34 years apart. A passenger plane was involved in a deadly smash-up at the Queens airport Sunday — the same date in 1992 that a jet crashed, killing 27 souls, as it attempted to take off from travel hub in a snowstorm. On March 22, 1992, Cleveland-bound USAir Flt. 405 tumbled off the runway and spiraled into Flushing Bay, killing more than two dozen of the 51 people on board, including the pilot, the New York Times reported at the time. “Every night, I close my eyes, and I keep seeing...

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just said he will deploy the NATIONAL GUARD to airports nationwide on top of ICE if necessary Democrats are about to FUME. "If that's not enough, I will bring the National Guard! We're NOT gonna have the Democrats destroy our country!" 🔥🔥

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🚨 BREAKING: ICE agents just surged into ANOTHER airport, now spotted at Newark, New Jersey 🔥 TSA agents are VERY glad these heroes are coming to alleviate pressure while Democrats hold them hostage President Trump made the perfect call!

Democrat Senator Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal on Sunday said ICE agents will shoot and kill families at airports. The Democrats have repeatedly voted to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, Democrats once again blocked funding for the DHS and TSA. Hundreds of TSA agents have quit their jobs after missing a paycheck. ... According to Reuters, ICE agents will be deployed to at least 14 major airports across the country on Monday. Senator Blumenthal said the ICE agents will shoot and kill families at the airports. “ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays &...

ICE officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrendous security lines for the TSA, which ran out of funding more than a month ago because of a Democrat shutdown, President Trump announced Sunday. The move is meant to speed up security lines, which have stretched up to three hours at some airports as TSA agents walk off the job or call out sick because they haven’t been paid in weeks. “On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left...