Most Transportation Security Administration workers received pay on Monday for at least two missed paychecks, a major development after weeks of financial strain and operational chaos tied to the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The payment helped ease some of the worst airport bottlenecks seen in recent memory, though the broader funding standoff in Washington remains unresolved.
The breakthrough came after President Donald Trump signed an emergency directive on Friday, allowing TSA officers to be paid, even as Congress remained deadlocked over DHS funding. Reuters reported that roughly 50,000 TSA officers had gone unpaid since mid-February during the 45-day partial shutdown. By Monday, most had received retroactive pay covering at least two full missed pay periods, according to TSA.
