TSA officers still calling out sick after Trump's directive to pay them
Source: ABC News
March 29, 2026, 5:39 PM
Some of the nation's airports are still seeing long wait lines as Transportation Security Administration officers continued to call out sick over the weekend, despite President Donald Trump signing a presidential memorandum ordering the Department of Homeland Security to begin issuing paychecks.
The TSA workers have been required to work without pay for the past 44 days due to an ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over the way immigration enforcement has been handled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
White House Border Czar Tom Homan said during an interview on CNN on Sunday that TSA officers' paychecks will "hopefully" arrive by Monday or Tuesday. Despite the promised resumption of pay, many of the TSA officers who haven't yet quit continue to call out sick, according to DHS officials. At least 10.27% of all scheduled TSA workers called out sick on Saturday, according to DHS.
The airport with the highest number of TSA officers calling out sick on Saturday was Bush International Airport in Houston, where 38.3% of the officers scheduled to work didn't show up, according to the DHS. The second-highest number of TSA officers calling out sick on Saturday was at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, where 36.8% of TSA officers were no-shows, according to DHS. Baltimore's Thurgood Marshall Airport, New York's John F. Kennedy International and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport all reported that at least 30% of TSA officers called out sick on Saturday, according to DHS.
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