Trump to sign order paying TSA workers amid DHS shutdown stalemate

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he will sign an executive order to pay thousands of Transportation Security Administration workers after negotiations over Department of Homeland Security funding stalled out.

“Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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