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<\/a><\/p>\n Justin Doubleday<\/a>@jdoubledayWFED<\/a><\/p>\n \n March 27, 2026 3:27 pm <\/p>\n 2 min read<\/p>\n President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Department of Homeland Security to re-direct funding to pay Transportation Security Administration employees, even as other DHS staff continue to go without pay during the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n Trump directed<\/a> DHS to \u201cuse funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n DHS said TSA staff would begin receiving paychecks \u201cas early as\u201d March 30.<\/p>\n The order does not specify an exact source of the funds. But CBS News, citing a senior administration official, reported<\/a> that DHS would use funding from last summer\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pay TSA employees.<\/p>\n ]]><\/p>\n \u201cOnce regular funding for TSA has been restored, every effort should be made, as authorized by law, to adjust applicable funding accounts within DHS to ensure the continuation of DHS operations and activities consistent with planned expenditures prior to the lapse,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n The formal order came out Friday afternoon, as a Senate-passed DHS funding deal appeared poised to fall apart in the House amid GOP opposition.<\/p>\n Roughly 60,000 TSA staff are going without pay during the shutdown, including 47,000 transportation security officers. Nearly 500 transportation security officers have quit since the shutdown began in February, while call-out rates have increased to 11% nationwide, leading to long security screening lines at some airports.<\/p>\n