Government Shutdown

WATCH: Johnson rejects Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate as a 'joke'

By Associated Press

An American Airlines jet takes off from at Washington Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia

WATCH LIVE: House Republicans reject Senate bill to reopen Department of Homeland Security

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Associated Press

Event honoring those who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, on Capitol Hill

WATCH: Senate passes deal to fund TSA, DHS

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggled to reach a deal to end a budget impasse that has jammed airports and left…

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

Record-high passenger wait times at airports, but no deal yet on the 40th day of the shutdown

The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration says air travelers are experiencing the highest airport wait times ever under her agency.

By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, Associated Press

ICE agents deployed to more than a dozen US airports amid staffing gaps

WATCH: TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA leaders testify on effects of partial government shutdown

During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing Wednesday, acting TSA leader Nguyen McNeill said that more than 480 transportation security officers have now quit amid the ongoing shutdown.

By Associated Press

WATCH: Truck in plane collision at LaGuardia lacked transponder to trigger warning system, NTSB says

By Michael R. Sisak, Josh Funk, John Seewer, Associated Press

A runway warning system failed to sound an alarm moments before an Air Canada jet and a fire truck collided while the plane was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators said Tuesday.

WATCH: Markwayne Mullin sworn in as new homeland security secretary amid shutdown

By Associated Press

After Mullin was sworn in by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump punted on questions regarding an emerging DHS funding deal.

Federal immigration agents deployed to Atlanta airport during partial shutdown

By Emilie Megnien, Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of Homeland Security workers, including from the TSA, U.S. Secret Service and Coast Guard, have worked without pay since Congress failed to renew DHS funding last month.

WATCH: Senate fails to advance measure for DHS funding to end shutdown

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed to advance Friday in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country's biggest airports.

As another shutdown affects travelers, is privatizing TSA screenings a solution?

By Rio Yamat, Associated Press

Long security lines snaked into baggage claim areas and parking garages at some U.S. airports this weekend, a possible indicator of more widespread travel problems as the latest government shutdown drags on.