Johnny Jones
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A lot of people had to take loans out, which cost money.
Everybody had an apartment complex.
Their apartment agreed not to evict them, but they still had to pay the $35 to $75 per day late fee.
This has happened twice in the last five months.
So when you calculate all that stuff,
The average has got to be around $10,000 because I've lost personally thousands and thousands of dollars.
Even though they're going to get paid, this is not going to make them whole because many of my colleagues are deep in the hole.
And so we're advocating for a $10,000 bonus for all TSA officers.
A lot of people had to take loans out, which cost money.
Everybody had an apartment complex.
Their apartment agreed not to evict them, but they still had to pay the $35 to $75 per day late fee.
This has happened twice in the last five months.
So when you calculate all that stuff, the average has got to be around $10,000 because I've lost personally thousands and thousands of dollars.
And I'm in one of the better positions of all the officers.
Many TSA security officers live paycheck to paycheck, and they're struggling, says Johnny Jones.
He's the secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 100, the union that represents about 45,000 TSA officers nationwide.
The Trump administration is blaming this missed paycheck on Democrats who are refusing to approve DHS's budget unless Republicans and the White House agree on changes to how immigration officers operate after the deaths of two American citizens in Minnesota.
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