Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that TSA agents who worked throughout the 43-day government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonus paychecks for their “exemplary service” in keeping air travel safe for the nation.

Noem thanked the hard-working Transportation Security Administration agents for “stepping up, taking on extra shifts, for showing up each and every day” as the shutdown derailed thousands of flights due to a lack of federal funding.