
TSA officers will start getting paychecks as early as Monday, DHS says
• Transportation Security Administration officers should “begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
• TSA agents, who screen passengers at U.S. airports before boarding, have worked without pay for weeks because of a partial government shutdown.
• President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not wait for Congress to appropriate funds for TSA agents, but that the executive branch would pay them.