Leila Fadl

So what happened in airports across the U.S.

this weekend?

Let's just get to the why here for those who don't know why the government isn't paying TSA agents.

How did this all start?

Now, the Trump administration says they have a plan to pay TSA workers.

What is that plan and when will that happen?

That's NPR's Joe Hernandez.

Thank you for your reporting, Joe.

And that's Up First for Monday, March 30th.

Hey, it's Leila Fahd and I'm speaking to you as I cross the border into Iraqi Kurdistan.

And I want to let you know that all week you'll hear dispatches from our team on the ground in the midst of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

I chose to come here not just because it neighbors Iran and is heavily influenced by both the Iranian and US governments, but because of the eerie echoes of the past.

Echoes that started the moment the US dropped its first bombs

on Iran.

President Trump addressed Americans.

Twenty-three years ago, the American people heard a similar address.

My fellow citizens,

President George W. Bush's war against Iraq was supposed to be decisive and short.

It lasted over a decade, cost upwards of a trillion dollars, sparked a civil war and left deep scars on Iraqis who lived through the war and the U.S.

soldiers who fought here.