{"id":898478,"date":"2026-04-11T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/elon-musk-offers-to-pay-salaries-of-tsa-agents-working-through-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:22:50","slug":"elon-musk-offers-to-pay-salaries-of-tsa-agents-working-through-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/elon-musk-offers-to-pay-salaries-of-tsa-agents-working-through-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Offers To Pay Salaries Of TSA Agents Working Through Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk volunteered Saturday to pay the salaries of federal airport security workers who have missed multiple paychecks since the government partially shut down in February.<\/p>\n

Democrats have filibustered funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over immigration enforcement operations, leading to a partial shutdown<\/a> of the Cabinet department. Among the most visible effects are Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees calling out of work or quitting, leading to long screening lines<\/a> at airports. Musk made the offer in a Saturday morning post<\/a> on X. (RELATED: \u2018Why Would You Wanna Punish All These Workers?\u2019: Sen Fetterman Does Not Spare Fellow Dems Over Gov\u2019t Shutdown\u2019s Effects)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,\u201d Musk posted.<\/p>\n

In response to the shutdown, DHS started<\/a> subjecting agencies, including TSA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to \u201cemergency measures.\u201d The shutdown has not affected United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because President Donald Trump secured<\/a> the agency $75 billion of funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, funding its operation until 2029.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump later posted<\/a> on Truth Social he might move ICE agents to the airports to address the manpower shortage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Radical Left Democrats don\u2019t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota,\u201d Trump posted Saturday. I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our Airports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats demanded<\/a> new restrictions on ICE after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Renee Nicole Good<\/a> in January during clashes with \u201crapid response groups\u201d opposed to federal immigration enforcement operations. The separate incidents occurred amid the deployment<\/a>\u00a0of hundreds of federal agents to Minnesota in response to reports about\u00a0welfare fraud<\/a>\u00a0involving Somali migrants.<\/p>\n

Among the Democrats\u2019 demands are for agents to stop wearing masks and that they obtain a so-called \u201cjudicial warrant\u201d before entering private property.<\/p>\n

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March 21, 2026 10:31 AM ET Tesla CEO Elon Musk volunteered Saturday to pay the salaries of federal airport security workers who have missed multiple paychecks since the government partially shut down in February. Democrats have filibustered funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over immigration enforcement operations, leading to a partial shutdown of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4568,35080],"tags":[5633,66011],"class_list":{"0":"post-898478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-offers","8":"category-salaries","9":"tag-offers","10":"tag-salaries"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}