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DHS Orders Payment of 50,000 US Airport Workers in Emergency Action

Passengers stand in the TSA line at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. (REUTERS/Daniel Heuer)

David Shepardson is a correspondent for Thomson Reuters.

REUTERS–The Homeland Security Department said on Friday it was taking emergency action to pay 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February, after work absences brought chaos and long security lines to U.S. airports.

“(The Transportation Security Administration) has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday,” DHS said.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would take executive action to pay TSA workers and issued a memo directing the payments Friday.

The TSA said earlier on Friday that nearly 12% of airport security officers did not show up for work on Thursday, the most absences since mid-February.

Major disruptions, including airport security lines of several hours or more, were reported at a number of major airports on Thursday and again on Friday. The TSA said more than 3,450 officers did not show up for work on Thursday, including more than one-third of officers at New York’s JFK and at airports in Baltimore, Houston and Atlanta.

The TSA cited reports of lines of four hours or more at airports across the country – the worst lines in the agency’s nearly 25-year history.

Airline officials told Reuters that absences and lines could worsen this weekend if there were no concrete details on how TSA officers would be paid. Nearly 500 airport security officers have quit since February.

It is unclear how long the funding will last or whether Trump would tap funding for the Homeland Security Department approved last year as part of a massive tax and spending bill.

Democrats in Congress have held up funding for DHS while demanding a change in rules governing its immigration operations, after agents in Minneapolis shot and killed citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise to end the six-week deadlock over DHS funding.

Congressional Democrats had proposed funding TSA separately while negotiating over reforms on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate.

The TSA had reiterated on Wednesday that the agency could be forced to close smaller airports if staffing issues worsened.

Airports are grappling with a school spring-break travel surge with about 5% higher volume than last year’s.

Hundreds of immigration agents and Homeland Security Investigations officers began deploying at 14 U.S. airports on Monday to aid security screening.

Originally published by Reuters.

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