TSA pay is back today—but here’s why airport lines could still be slow

On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order funding the TSA for the time being, meaning TSA workers are set to receive paychecks after weeks going without. However that might not mean airport lines are back to normal. Some airports are still dealing with the fallout from the partial government shutdown which led to high rates of callouts among TSA workers, as well as hundreds of workers who turned in their resignations out of financial necessity. “Today, at the direction of President Trump and @SecMullinDHS, TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce,” DHS said in a social media statement on Friday. “TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30.” The statement referred to the shutdown as the “DHS Democrat shutdown.”  After nearly six weeks without a paycheck, experts are also hopeful that TSA workers will actually be paid on Monday, but say that workers are still up against a lot regardless,