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11 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: March 29, 2026.
With 3,450 TSA officers calling out on a single day and airports in chaos, Trump signed an executive order to pay workers using unspent funds — but Congress remains deadlocked over how to reopen the department.
Transportation Security Administration workers begin receiving pay again after more than a month without wages during partial government shutdown.
After 42 days without paychecks, 61,000 TSA workers are set to receive back pay by Monday after Trump invoked nexus funding authority — but with the Senate in recess and the House and Senate bills incompatible, the underlying shutdown crisis remains unresolved.
WatchWith no deal in sight after the House passed a bill the Senate calls dead on arrival, the standoff over immigration agency funding has shattered the record for the longest government shutdown in American history, leaving airports reeling.
Republicans revolted over a Senate measure and passed their own bill, dimming chances for quick end to crisis crippling airports nationwide.
Republicans revolted over a Senate measure and passed their own version, prolonging the shutdown that has crippled airport operations nationwide.
President directs Homeland Security Department to compensate thousands of unpaid airport security officers as travel delays mount nationwide during partial government shutdown.
A GOP proposal would fund 94% of DHS while leaving ICE deportation operations in a separate bill, as TSA shortages push airport wait times past two hours at major hubs.
With the TSA callout rate topping 55% at some airports and wait times stretching past two hours, President Trump ordered ICE agents to take up positions at airport entrances — a plan aviation security unions say 'creates a gap, not fills one.'
Unpaid TSA workers are walking off the job at record rates — with callout spikes above 50% at some airports — as a DHS funding stalemate between Congress and the White House enters its fifth week with no end in sight.
Houston Hobby lost 55% of its officers during spring break travel season.