“I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. Democrats had for weeks sought to pay TSA agents while negotiations continued over broader DHS funding and reforms to ICE, but those bills were repeatedly blocked by GOP senators. announced he was drafting legislation to pay TSA workers, essentially breaking with his Republican colleagues, who had repeatedly blocked similar bills offered by Democrats. It’s not clear how Republicans would have responded to Kennedy’s request after objecting to previous Democratic attempts to pay TSA agents. Trump’s decision to pay TSA workers by claiming emergency powers prompted questions from Democrats, who wondered why he didn’t do so earlier to prevent the chaos at airports from occurring in the first place.
