DHS shutdown: Congressional dysfunction imperils pay for TSA, Secret Service
Congress is facing a potential shutdown that could impact pay for DHS employees, including TSA and Secret Service agents. President Trump signed an executive order to fund DHS during the shutdown, but this funding may run out by May 1. The Senate has passed funding measures, but partisan disagreements are preventing a resolution.
- ▪Congress is set to take a weeklong break starting Friday, adding urgency to the funding situation.
- ▪President Trump signed an executive order in April to authorize pay for DHS employees during the shutdown.
- ▪Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated that the Senate has passed DHS funding unanimously, but the House has blocked it.
- ▪Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the funding impasse, with accusations of obstruction on both sides.
- ▪Budget reconciliation is being considered as a way to pass funding with a simple majority in the Senate.
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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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