The spokesperson called the ongoing shutdown an “emergency” and a “crisis.”
“TSA officers are now losing their homes and cars, struggling to put food on the table, and are experiencing all-around financial catastrophe because of this extended shutdown, the 3rd they’ve experienced in just 6 months,” the spokesperson said. “Travelers are facing record breaking wait times stretching hours and hours long causing missed flights, unnecessary delays, and booking headaches.”
In a presidential memorandum issued on Friday, Trump said that he has “determined that these circumstances constitute an emergency situation compromising the Nation’s security,” and, as a result, directed Mullin and the Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, “to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for” the shutdown.
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