The Senate passed a bill early Friday morning to fund the Department of Homeland Security, a first step in ending the partial government shutdown that resulted in extreme delays at airport security lines.
With TSA checkpoint lines reaching a breaking point ahead of the busy spring break travel weekend, there are signs of relief after the Senate reached an agreement to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security in a bid to end a weekslong partial government shutdown that caused chaos at airports across the country. NBC’s Aaron Gilchrist reports for…
Passengers report varying experiences at different times of day at security screening as ICE agents assist TSA staffUS politics – live updatesHartfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport turned the digital wait time sign off days ago. Predicting passenger behavior can be hard; predicting the behavior of unpaid TSA agents is also hard. Keeping an…
The pressure now shifts to the House to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has severely disrupted air travel in some major airports. Follow live updates.
The Senate has partially funded the Department of Homeland Security following a 42-day stalemate — but there's a catch. More than six weeks after DHS was first shut down in mid-February, the Senate agreed in the early morning hours on Friday to fund key agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Cybersecurity and…
House GOP lawmakers huddled for a conference call on Friday with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to deliberate over the funding bill approved by the Senate earlier this morning.
President confirms order to pay TSA agents on an emergency basis
It comes after a 40-day partial shut down of the government that has brought chaos to US airports.
