Ed Kalecki

President Trump has signed a memo directing Transportation Security Administration personnel to be paid a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S.

airports amid the ongoing shutdown of its parent agency.

Trump's Friday memo stated that 50,000 transportation officers who work security at airports are not being paid due to the funding lapse at the DHS, prompting almost 500 to leave their positions, with thousands more calling in sick.

A DHS spokesperson said that TSA has immediately begun the process of paying the workforce and that officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson talked about the president's move.

Still, it's unclear how the system will work.

The memo does not cite the specific source of funding.

The president may also lack the legal authority to unilaterally authorize pay.

Federal law gives Congress the power of the purse.

Tiger Woods was arrested Friday afternoon for driving under the influence after crashing his vehicle into another car in Jupiter Island, Florida.

The Martin County Sheriff's Office says Woods was also charged with property damage and refusal to submit a urinalysis test.

Woods and the other driver were not seriously injured.

The crash occurred around 2 p.m.

in West Palm Beach, not far from where the golf star lives.

Woods attempted to overtake a pickup truck pulling a small trailer and swerved to avoid the collision, but clipped the trailer and rolled his SUV.

It's the second time in five years Woods has rolled his car in an accident.

Speaking on the airport tarmac as he left France following his meetings with foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrial nations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said their role in keeping the Strait of Hormuz open comes after the war if Iran controls the Strait and has the power to levy tolls on shipping.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The U.S.

and Israel bombed Iranian nuclear and steel facilities on Friday while Iran retaliated across the Persian Gulf, causing markets to sink and oil prices to rise amid fears a protracted Middle East conflict will drag down the global economy.