David Shepardson
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Reuters World News · UPDATE - Trump orders TSA agents paid after House rejects deal · 27 Mar 2026
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So the good news is the chaos of the airports should be ending relatively soon.
And those payments should start hitting their bank accounts as early as Monday.
So the fact that there's a concrete...
definitive decision that they're getting paid should go a long way toward addressing big concerns on the part of airlines and others that we really hit the breaking point.
Today is the second full paycheck that TSA officers have missed on top of one that they missed most of.
So it's really three paychecks they have mostly not gotten.
We've really heard harrowing stories of TSA workers who had to sell blood plasma or sleeping in cars or been evicted or facing really difficult financial challenges.
air traffic control across the country is overstressed.
There are a lot of places where it's mandatory overtime, six day work weeks.
We don't know yet whether this controller is working overtime, had had a six day work week.
What we know from the transportation secretary is that LaGuardia Tower is one of the places where ATC staff is relatively robust.
They have 33 trained certified controllers.
They have six more in training and they have a target staffing of 37.
So right now, it's not clear how much they're assisting.
There's certainly a very public presence to send a message to try to these crowds, but they're not really yet performing the duties of a typical TSA officer.
And it is worth noting, there's a lot of frustration on the part of TSA employees.
They're not getting paid.
Sworn officers, people at ICE, TSA air marshals are continuing to get paid during the shutdown.
But the 50,000 transportation security officers are not getting paid.
So here's what we know for certain, which is that the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday night
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