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Agents with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should start seeing paychecks Monday or Tuesday, but it could still be quite some time before the business of traveling by air returns to business as usual.<\/p>\n
Border Czar Tom Homan told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday that he had spoken with newly sworn-in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin about President Donald Trump\u2019s order \u2014 which directed him to pay TSA agents out of preexisting funding \u2014 and that they expected agents to see their first paychecks in weeks within the coming days.<\/p>\n
WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n Border Czar Tom Homan says TSA agents can expect to be paid \u201ctomorrow or Tuesday.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/b8XBX11sLC<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) March 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Homan also addressed Trump\u2019s decision to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into airports \u2014 a move made to mitigate the chaos of long lines and wait times as the lack of pay led to mass callouts among TSA employees \u2014 and said that they may remain in place for a time yet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see. You know, it depends how many TSA agents come back to work. How many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work? I\u2019m working very closely with TSA administrator and the ICE director to decide what airport needs what,\u201d Homan told Tapper.<\/p>\n The president issued an executive order on Friday directing Mullin to use funding that had \u201ca reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations\u201d to ensure that agents received pay. They have not been paid since Democrats voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security some six weeks earlier, forcing a partial government shutdown that has also impacted the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Coast Guard and Secret Service.<\/p>\n The Democrats voted to block the DHS funding bill after the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti during the ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, despite the fact that ICE agents were still being paid under provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill.<\/p>\n\n