Trump signs order to pay TSA agents amid DHS shutdown impasse
Updated March 27, 2026, 8:08 p.m. ET WASHINGTON – With no end in sight to the intractable Department of Homeland Security shutdown, President Donald Trump signed an order on Friday, March 27, to reroute federal funds to pay airport security workers by declaring an “unprecedented emergency situation.” The White House said it will “use 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,” according to text of the decree. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin began the








