{"id":177848,"date":"2026-03-28T00:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177848\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:06:21","slug":"tsa-workers-will-start-seeing-paychecks-on-monday-thanks-to-trumps-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177848\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA workers will start seeing paychecks on Monday \u2014 thanks to Trump’s order"},"content":{"rendered":"

TSA agents will start seeing paychecks drop in their bank accounts on Monday, a much-needed boost for stressed-out airport workers who have been caught up in a bitter political fight for more than 40 days. <\/p>\n

President Trump signed an order on Friday, using emergency powers to order the workers paid despite the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown. While Congress has failed to fund the rest of the department, TSA workers will get some relief, though other DHS workers are still unpaid.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, at the direction of President Trump and the Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30,\u201d a DHS spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cTSA is grateful to the President and Secretary for their leadership to put money back into the pockets of TSA employees who worked without pay during the ongoing Democrat DHS shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump signed the order after legislation to fund DHS stalled on Capitol Hill<\/a>, and airport security wait times ballooned to hours at some locations due to TSA staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI have determined that these circumstances constitute an emergency situation compromising the Nation\u2019s security,\u201d the president wrote in the official notice of the order.<\/p>\n

TSA workers are in their second month without pay after a partial shutdown of DHS funds. The Senate \u2013 in the early hours of Thursday morning \u2013 passed a measure to fund the department <\/a>but the House rejected that on Friday, prolonging a six-week shutdown.<\/p>\n

\"TSATSA agents will start seeing paychecks drop in their bank accounts on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said. AP<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters his chamber would move \u201cas soon as possible\u201d on a stopgap measure funding DHS for 60 days after federal immigration enforcement got \u201czero\u201d dollars in the Senate version of the bill.<\/p>\n

He blamed Democrats for an 11th-hour solution after holding up funding of the department for weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unconscionable to me that the Democrats would force some sort of negotiation at three o\u2019clock in the morning and try to foist this upon the American people and then get on their jets and go home for their holiday \u2014 and pretend and think that we\u2019re going to go along with that,\u201d the speaker said.<\/p>\n

Passengers continue to face hours-long waits<\/a> at some of the country\u2019s busiest airports. Many agents called in sick to protest the lack of pay.<\/p>\n

\"TravelersTravelers wait in a TSA screening line at Orlando International Airport on March 22, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cTSA officers are now losing their homes and cars, struggling to put food on the table, and are experiencing all-around financial catastrophe because of this extended shutdown, the third they\u2019ve experienced in just six months. Travelers are facing record breaking wait times stretching hours and hours long causing missed flights, unnecessary delays, and booking headaches,\u201d the DHS spokesperson noted.<\/p>\n

With many schools going on spring break and the busy Easter and Passover holidays around the corner, there was growing concern that airport chaos would worsen.<\/p>\n

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Senate Democrats have held up the funding<\/a> for 42 days in protest of the ICE and Customs and Border Protection-involved fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota earlier this year.<\/p>\n

But they did not get key reforms to federal immigration enforcement that they demanded in the bill, which excluded funding for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection but did fund TSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TSA agents will start seeing paychecks drop in their bank accounts on Monday, a much-needed boost for stressed-out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3347,2300,153,32394,9,11,10,87,3367,58],"class_list":["post-177848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airports","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-orders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-tsa","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}