DHS shutdown: Congressional dysfunction imperils pay for TSA, Secret Service
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February, as Congress continues to look for a compromise to fund the agency.
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Congress, while rife with dysfunction, is in short supply of time. Both chambers are slated to take a weeklong break starting Friday. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April that he said would authorize paying all DHS employees during the shutdown. But that emergency funding could dry up by May 1, according to Trump administration officials. If it does, Transportation Security Administration agents could begin missing paychecks again, which at the start of the shutdown caused massive delays at airports across the country.
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