Trump Says He Will Order T.S.A. Agents Paid as Funding Deal Stalls
Posted on: Mar 27, 2026 05:41 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
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President Trump’s announcement came as talks on Capitol Hill over funding the Department of Homeland Security faltered, and airport lines continued to grow.
Michael Gold and Megan Mineiro
Reporting from the Capitol
President Trump said on Thursday that he would sign an emergency order to pay Transportation Security Administration agents who have gone without pay for weeks, as senators struggled to strike a homeland security funding deal that could end the intensifying crisis at airports.
The details of Mr. Trump’s order were not immediately available, including what authority the White House would cite to make the funds available in the absence of an appropriation by Congress. It was also unclear why the president had waited more than five weeks after the Department of Homeland Security was shuttered to pay T.S.A. Workers.
As lawmakers have struggled to come up with a deal to fund the department, Mr. Trump and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly blamed Democrats for depriving T.S.A. Agents of their pay. Democrats had been pressing to separately fund T.S.A. For weeks, an approach that Republicans rejected time and again after Department of Homeland Security funding lapsed on Feb. 14.
But until Thursday, neither side had wanted to budge on T.S.A. — the part of the department that most directly affects Americans’ daily lives — as each sought leverage in a broader dispute over Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. That fight began last month when, following the killings of two U.S. Citizens by federal immigration agents, Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security without measures to rein in enforcement tactics.
With long lines at airports ahead of a prime spring travel weekend, and with lawmakers eager to compromise ahead of a two-week congressional recess, Senate Democrats and Republicans had stepped up their efforts in recent days to reach a funding deal, and spent Thursday day haggling over the terms.
But even as the pace of conversations picked up on Capitol Hill, there was still no sign of a compromise by evening, which Mr. Trump acknowledged in a social media post announcing his plan.
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