Trump signs executive action to pay TSA employees after Congress fails to agree on DHS funding

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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Just breaking - hearing on the radio that he is claiming the money is coming from the BBB.

Article updated.

Original article -

Updated 3:24 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 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.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Which he could have done all along.

Fuck the Pedo in Chief.

[IbogaProject]

4. TACO

Yet again Trump Always Chickens Out. Yep he didn't want this continuing during the Easter and Passover travel season.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Unconstitutional

But will probably not be challenged as the Dems don't want to be the bad guys.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. It might still be challenged

the issue being "standing".

Remember what happened with the unilateral crap E.O. involving the "tariffs"?

[littlemissmartypants]

6. They get paid...

And is challenged... Watch him try to claw the cash back. I'm just spitballing but nothing surprises me anymore. It's like the wild west.

He'd love nothing more than to hurt the suffering twice. A double tap, just like the girls at the school in Iran.

[RussBLib]

5. ICE got $75 BILLION in the OBBB

Surely there is plenty still unspent. Just move the funds from there. Maybe he has done something that I agree with.

There MUST be an ulterior motive.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[SunSeeker]

7. I'm fine with him using that ICE slush fund money from the Big Ugly Bill to pay TSA.

That's a win for Dems and the country.

[Gore1FL]

8. He should sign an executive order that we won in Iran.

It’ll be as effective.

[WestMichRad]

9. I thought that by now they'd have already...

… embezzled all the money available from the BBB…