Trump signs executive action to pay TSA employees after Congress fails to agree on DHS funding
Source: AP
Updated 3:35 PM EDT, March 27, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a deal that sought to do the same stalled in Congress.
Trump signed the action with an eye toward easing long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports. “America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump said in the memo authorizing the payments. He added, “I have determined that these circumstances constitute an emergency situation compromising the Nation’s security.”
Trump said his administration would use “funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations” for the payments. In a statement Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said TSA workers “should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday.”
On Thursday night, as lawmakers grappled with the issue, a senior administration official said the money would come from the tax bill Trump signed last year. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly. They compared the move to actions Trump took during a past shutdown to pay troops.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/senate-tsa-homeland-security-airports-trump-672467393ae043e47938874e7aaddcd6
Just breaking - hearing on the radio that he is claiming the money is coming from the BBB.
Article updated.
Original article -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a deal that sought to do the same stalled in Congress.
Trump signed the action with an eye toward easing long security lines at many of nation’s top airports.
“America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump said in the memo authorizing the payments.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
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… embezzled all the money available from the BBB…
creates these situations, then wants to be worshipped as a hero when he ends his own creations. 🤪
We're in bazzarro-world here, folks. 
I sincerely believe he's a sadist who loves creating misery and harm to others. He's the poor little rich boy who no one liked, and now he gets his jollies by hurting others as much as possible, just because he can. 🤨
