Trump Signs EO to Pay Beleaguered TSA Agents after House Rejects Senate-approved Funding Bill

Today, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees as soon as Monday, after a deal that sought to do the same stalled in the House of Representatives. An hour earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund the TSA and most of Homeland Security.

House Republicans were angry that the Senate's measure did not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, which Democrats refuse to fund without changes to immigration enforcement practices. Senators have already left town since passing their bill in the early morning, so it would take time for them to return if the House ends up passing a different measure than the one the Senate cleared.

The White House said money to pay TSA employees, who haven't been paid since Feb. 14, 2026, will come from the enormous tax cut bill Trump signed into law in July 2024 that funneled billions of dollars in extra funds to DHS — money that has kept ICE agents paid throughout the shutdown.

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