Overview
- President Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to issue paychecks to all employees who missed pay since funding lapsed on February 14.
- TSA workers had already begun receiving pay this week under a prior presidential memo focused on screening staff.
- The new memo cites more than 35,000 unpaid workers, including Coast Guard civilians, FEMA employees, and cybersecurity staff at CISA.
- Townhall reports that ICE and Border Patrol agents kept receiving pay while many civilian support staff went without.
- The article says Senate Republicans advanced a plan to fund DHS without ICE and Border Patrol, with GOP leaders signaling they would seek separate reconciliation to fund those units later.