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After a deal was approved in the Senate to fund the Department of Homeland Security, except for immigration operations, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, including Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, and Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., center, tell reporters that they won't vote in the House to pass it as is, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 27, 2026.
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President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress. Trump signed the action Friday with an eye toward easing long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports. “America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump said in the memo authorizing the payments. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says TSA workers “should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday.” Trump’s action came after House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security.
