Joel Rose

Many have picked up second jobs, leading to some of the longest security lines in the agency's history.

But we still don't know when those security screeners will get paid next.

Good morning.

Well, we know they started hitting the bank accounts of many TSA screeners yesterday, and that is some relief for the roughly 50,000 TSA security officers who had been working without pay since funding lapsed more than six weeks ago.

I talked last night with Johnny Jones.

He's a leader with the union that represents TSA workers.

But at the same time, Jones says, there is still a lot of anxiety and concern.

These screeners still have not gotten the full amounts that they were owed.

DHS says most screeners have been paid for the two full paychecks they missed, but they have not been paid yet for part of a third missed paycheck.

DHS says it is working aggressively to process that one.

Good question.

President Trump signed a memo last week ordering Homeland Security to find the money to pay TSA workers after Congress repeatedly failed to reach a deal to fund the department.

Lawmakers have disagreed over calls for tighter restrictions on immigration enforcement after Homeland Security officers killed two U.S.

citizens in Minneapolis in January.

But that said, we still don't know exactly where the money is coming from.

A lot of the

If it is even legal for the White House to do this, and if it is legal, why didn't it happen sooner?

Thousands of TSA officers have called out of work since the shutdown began.

Many have picked up second jobs, leading to some of the longest security lines in the agency's history.

But we still don't know when those security screeners will get paid next.