{"id":75979,"date":"2025-12-08T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:26:13","slug":"noem-visits-tampa-airport-to-give-tsa-officers-10000-bonus-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/75979\/","title":{"rendered":"Noem visits Tampa airport to give TSA officers $10,000 bonus checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sixteen U.S. Transportation Security Administration officers at Tampa International Airport were awarded $10,000 bonuses Monday from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for their service during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Not every officer at the airport received the stipend. The funds were distributed only to those nominated by supervisors and leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just based on one factor or another,\u201d Noem said at a news conference at the airport. \u201cIt\u2019s for individuals who continue to show up \u2014 fulfilled their shifts, but also did other things to help through the shutdown that helped the entire team be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A group of security officers stood alongside Noem, each commended for their work. Nominations for bonuses are still open, according to Noem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Not everyone has expressed support. Noem was asked about a Transportation Security Administration union leader in Minnesota who called such <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/us-homeland-security-secretary-to-evaluate-temporary-protected-status-for-somalis-nationwide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bonuses unfair;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">bonuses unfair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThose individuals sound like the Grinch,\u201d Noem said. \u201cThey should be happy when other people get rewarded for doing good work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen U.S. Transportation Security Administration officers at Tampa International Airport were awarded $10,000 bonuses Monday from Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6204,3209,42948,135,137,3210,136,3212],"class_list":["post-75979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-kristi-noem","tag-security-officers","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-international-airport","tag-tampa-news","tag-transportation-security-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}