Michelle Hackman

And if you miss multiple paychecks, I mean, the TSA union has been saying people are not surviving, right?

They're getting part-time jobs to help pay for themselves.

And we've seen the so-called call-out rate, the rate that TSA agents are like calling sick to work, extremely high, particularly in some places, like up to 40% of staff.

Yeah, we're not exactly sure, but there is a curious series of events that went down right before Trump announced the policy.

So Clay Travis went on Fox News and he basically said, I have a brilliant idea.

And very soon after that, Trump tweeted out almost the identical idea.

Yeah, it's a good question.

So over the summer, Republicans passed this bill.

It's called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And in that bill, Republicans gave DHS $170 billion basically to carry out the mass deportation.

A huge amount of that money was allotted to ICE.

And specifically, it doesn't run on sort of the annual funding cycle the way normal funding does.

It's like this money that ICE has that expires in 2029, and they can use it whenever.

And so basically, ICE has been able to continue paying all of its officers, even though their normal funding is shut down.

First of all, we were told that they were taken completely by surprise.

They learned the same moment that we all saw Trump's post on Truth Social.

You know, I reached out to people at ICE over the weekend and they were like a mix of panicked, incredulous, confused, definitely unhappy about the position they've been put in.

Why?