Trump says he’s signing an order instructing DHS to pay TSA agents to stop ‘chaos at the airports’ amid 40-day funding shutdown

For context: Congresswoman Duckworth made a public statement confirming to the press that DHS could have been paying TSA this whole time. During this, and still ongoing - the Senate has hung up on a vote, that has been fully voted on (100 votes in and counted) to prevent a Senator (who is still live-tweeting) from demanding Unanimous Consent to fund TSA outright. Edit: The Republican Senator claiming to want/is attempting to force a clean TSA-only funding bill is [John Kennedy](https://xcancel.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/2037216792125333653#m). Sorry for taking so long to find/post this information. Arthur Delaney is a Huffington Post reporter, who contacted Senator Kennedy directly. Trump heard both of those things and immediately 'signed an order' (called Markwayne Mullin's cell phone) to pay TSA. It has nothing to do with Trump or DHS. They got full-nelsoned out of lying to the entire country for fourty one days.

I’m sure the TSA agents who have been living on thoughts and prayers for six weeks will be thrilled to receive an executive order instead of a backdated mortgage payment.

Trump could have resolved this weeks ago, but he let it fester instead.

“Congress holds the purse strings” has become the punchline for a joke.

If he can, why did he wait?

DHS: "In 2 weeks! *2 weeks later* TSA: "I haven't received a check...: DHS: "You took 1 day off. It's against the rule to take a day off during shutdown. So no paycheck for you."

So let me get this straight. Trump had the power to fix this 40 days ago but used our suffering for political Leverage?

All the GOP had to do was pass ONE of the 8 bills to fund TSA that were brought up in the past month. 🙄

This was chaos that he caused right? Or are we talking about different chaos? I can't keep track anymore.

So Trump could've done this a month ago but chose to let the people responsible for protecting our airports go without pay...

He's going to make it look like he is the hero of this f*** up.

He should pay with the Billions he’s already grifted from the American people.

1)Start fire 2)Blame firefighters for not having fire put out yet 3)Put out fire, claim to be hero

I’m not sure that’s how that works, but, then again, I’m also not sure of very much anymore.

Seems like Trump is being a little too obvious in screwing over TSA workers. Is privatizing or abolishing the TSA part of Project 2025 or something?  Because Trump is going beyond holding TSA agents and travelers hostage to get the SAVE Act passed, and is actually trying to break the TSA by driving everyone to quit through mismamagement and then saying that Trump Airport and C***** Security can do it better but it needs an exclusive no-bid contract to do it.

From what fund?

Here is the dipshits full tweet, having the usual lies and dumbass claims: *The Radical Left Democrats, and their “Leader,” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is, ON THE SIDE OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do! Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it! I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. I will not allow the Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP*

"Trump admits he has been holding the safety and security of Americans hostage so he can rig the midterms"

Roses are red Violets are blue Break free little clot Do what you do /obviously not directed to any individual in particular

If Trump really does pay TSA with Homeland Security money, that works for me. Homeland Security got $190 billion in the so-called “big beautiful bill” last year, so they should be able to afford it. Good use for that money actually. And Dems should then do everything they can to stop them from getting reimbursed for it.

This MF really just taco on his own threat?

To me the fact that you have a system which allows you to force people to work and not pay them is wild. That's slavery.

The Dems have introduced legislation to fund TSA as a standalone bill multiple times

TACO trump said nothing gets done until the cheat election act.

Let me solve a problem that I created. Is that what happened?

This f****** idiot could’ve done this from day zero? And he refused because politics.

The DHS administrators have been the one not paying TSA. Trump trying to get credit for extinguishing a fire his people started.

Wow. So he was just holding out trying to make the Dems look bad. Another dumb move.

Classic Trump. Create a problem then claim victory by resetting back to the way it was.

Too bad his EO is like 90% of his others: invalid and unconstitutional

Well he has no constitutional authority to do so.

If this happens watch all his supporters and the non political people say they’re getting paid thanks to Trump and no thanks to the democrats even though there had been multiple no strings attached bills introduced that had nothing on them other than to get the TSA agents paid and he had them all rejected.

Didn’t he just previously divert money to ICE under other funding streams at the expense of other DHS employees, like TSA? This was and always has been a problem created by himself. He wanted to make sure his personal, underqualified, trigger happy army would remain loyal so ensured they got paid.

Illegal. Dictatorship.

You mean, he could’ve just done that at any time. Well I’ll be damned.

Pretty he sure presidents don’t control the countries purse strings

That this MF caused

Oh wow. Looks like the only thing stopping the paychecks all along was Trump himself.

Can y'all pay the Coast Guard too? You don't want the person rescuing you from your yacht to be hungry!

TACO Trump did what?

Which he could have done day 1

Create a problem, generate chaos, sit back and enjoy the suffering, then ride in on a white horse and fix it,! The Trump Classic

So if this was an option, he left them to languish for 40 days for fun?

So he refused to sign a deal that would fund the TSA, so that he could try to look like a hero by funding the TSA?

One wildly illegal and two where is the money coming from? Just curious if he's getting the money from the correct source or not. I don't trust the accounting in this WH at all. I bet they already spent the tariffs they're supposed to pay back. 

It’s like asking a kid to clean his room every day for a month and the last day of the month he finally does it and expects you to be ecstatic.

>>claims there is no problem >>blames someone for the problem >>cuts funding to avoid the problem >>slap dashes some solution with zero regard for cost or pain it causes Have I summed up his entire presidency well enough?

If that is all he had to do, why did he wait

>to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” he added. If he has the power to direct Markwayne Mullin to pay the TSA agents, why now rather than before so many agents quit. He stopped Thune from passing a compromise that would have allowed them to be paid separately from ICE, but he said no deals with the Democrats according to (R-LA) John Kennedy.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

So, he could have done this any time, saved a lot of pain and heartache for employees and danger to air travellers.

So another instance where the orange shows seditious behavior by betraying the American people (whom he represents) by using his own government employees paychecks as leverage for his fascist agenda? Icing on the cake: he could’ve paid them the entire time and this whole shut down was for a nothing burger. Please how many more examples of treason does Congress need to see before action is taken? Arrest the orange, all of his goons, and any rep who supports his fascist agenda now before it’s too late

Take it out of the ICE budget

Holy f*** they need a union. Trump once again has to fix something HE broke.

"Trump says..." That's the cue to stop reading

TACO Thursday… and cue Trump touting how he’s “solved the problem Democrats created”.

Proving he could’ve ended this months ago…

Good. He should cave. The EO isn't the right way to do this, but his trying to demand that their pay would only come if both full DHS funding and the SAVE Act were included has fallen flat on it's face. The TSA agents deserve pay and Republicans wouldn't pass a stand alone funding bill. Trump has to cave because people are pissed about the short staffing at airports and TSA has lost hundreds of agents due to no pay.

Okay, that was always allowed!

Donald you created this mess

Pay them? With what money?

This is even more evidence for No Kings protestors: The best way to make change is to block transit. Block airports. Block highways. Ted Cruz will love it :beachEmoji

Create a problem, blame the dems, then try to come across as the saviour

what about everybody else who is working for free?

I would want cash up front.

Wow what a big strong man

No mention at all about retroactive payments

So that means they have to sell some of the luxury jets with master bedroom suite that Noem used?

Blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.

Why is he so stupid? Why is Congress? Who pays for things in this country is basic civics.

With what money? Made up trump bucks?

TACO strikes again...

Why is it every time I'm about to finally use up all my travel card points this f****** guy manages to shut down the airports

This won't magically fix the problem, sure people might not be calling in "sick", but over 400 TSA agent's have quit. I doubt those people will just come right back.

So it didn’t have to be like this? He could have done it day 1? This was just a ploy?

Could have been avoided weeks ago by agreeing to the democrats idea of a carve out of TSA for funding and deal with the rest as a separate package.A deliberate action by Trump to make it sound like he's solving the 'Democrat problem'. Another bone cast to his MAGA cultist base as their great savior against 'Democratic extremism'.