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Tsaworkersstartgettingpaychecksagain Lines Persist

Julian Sterling
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tsaworkersstartgettingpaychecksagain lines persist

While Transportation Security Administration employees began to get paid Monday, long lines at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B persisted. On Friday, after the Senate passed a spending bill that was quickly rejected in the House, President Donald Trump signed an executive action to pay TSA employees.

What You Need To Know - On Friday, after the Senate passed a spending bill that quickly was rejected in the House, President Donald Trump signed an executive action to pay TSA employees - The hope is with paychecks to TSA employees restarting, more will return to work and lines at airports will ease - Paychecks to TSA officers began to resume Monday Using funds that have a "reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations” for the payments, the executive memo said the nation’s airports had reached a breaking point, adding that the situation travelers had been seeing play out across the country compromised the nation’s security.

Some air travelers NY1 spoke with said they'd had enough of the back-and-forth that led to the long waits. “I was hoping that since they were gonna get paid today that there were fewer people who would call out, but I don’t blame them," Margaret Peacock said while waiting on an hour-plus-long TSA PreCheck line. The hope is with paychecks to TSA employees restarting, more will return to work and lines at airports will ease.

But Congress still remains at an impasse when it comes to immigration enforcement within the Department of Homeland Security, the issue holding up funding approval. Ahead of this past weekend, the House and Senate passed vastly different bills, continuing their stalemate as lawmakers leave D.C. for a two-week recess. “I think it's just a lot of people pointing fingers and wanting to place blame on other parties if they can,” traveler Taylor Whitley said. “Nothing's going to get resolved that way.

So I think people just need to get it together and look out for the best interests of the public.” Coming into this week, airports across the country were dealing with some of their highest call-out rates of the partial shutdown so far. And according to DHS, nearly 500 of the agency’s nearly 50,000 TSA officers have quit. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that are getting paid despite the shutdown will for now remain at the 14 major airports, including LaGuardia, John F.

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