Tag: Government Shutdown

Rep. Greg Casar and Sen. John Cornyn

John Cornyn and Greg Casar clash over DHS funding at Austin airport

Lauren Green · March 16, 2026 3:24 pm

A Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington.

National Security

Democrats’ goal is ‘power’ over national security in DHS shutdown: Joe Concha

Asher Notheis · March 16, 2026 10:27 am

An American Airlines jetliner lands on a runway as a United Airlines plane waits for clearance to take off as high winds strafe Denver International Airport Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Major airline CEOs come together to plead for deal on DHS funding

David Zimmermann · March 16, 2026 10:15 am

Airline passengers wait in long lines outside the terminal to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Airport security strains and TSA lines grow as Congress shows little urgency to end DHS shutdown

Samantha-Jo Roth · March 13, 2026 6:00 am

United Airlines jetliner is pushed off a gate on the A concourse for take off from Denver International Airport.

Denver airport requests gift card donations for TSA employees amid DHS shutdown

Asher Notheis · March 12, 2026 1:25 pm

Airline passengers wait in long lines outside the terminal to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026.

DHS reopens Global Entry after shutdown causes airport chaos

David Zimmermann · March 11, 2026 8:10 am

Chuck Schumer Senate Democrats.

Senate Democrats try to ‘signal’ to base with DHS shutdown: Guy Benson

Asher Notheis · March 10, 2026 4:22 pm

Airline passengers wait in long lines to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

National Security

Democrats face growing pressure to fund DHS amid airport lines and security crises

Anna Giaritelli · March 10, 2026 6:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens while traveling aboard Air Force One en route from Dover Air Force Base, Del., to Miami, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump would sign legislation to reopen DHS despite SAVE America Act threat

Naomi Lim · March 9, 2026 2:44 pm

Airline passengers wait in long lines to get through the TSA security screening at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Airport chaos escalates pressure to resolve DHS government shutdown

David Zimmermann · March 9, 2026 9:08 am

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

DHS government shutdown is an ‘insane situation’: Byron York

Sydney Topf · March 6, 2026 11:57 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at a secure facility in the basement of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2026

Kristi Noem’s ouster ‘changes nothing’ for Democrats blocking DHS funding

Ramsey Touchberry, David Sivak · March 5, 2026 5:19 pm