Trump signs memo directing DHS to pay all workers amid shutdown | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump on Friday officially signed a memorandum ordering all Department of Homeland Security employees be paid amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The move expands Trump’s earlier directive for DHS to unilaterally pay Transportation Security Administration workers in a bid to alleviate travel backlogs at understaffed airports. The money for the broader payments is also expected to come from last summer’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” according to an Office of Management and Budget official. As the Capitol Hill stalemate has stretched on, tens of thousands of other DHS staffers — including Federal Emergency Management Agency workers, civilians in the US Coast Guard, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employees — have reported for work without compensation. Writing that the “the circumstances constitute an emergency situation compromising the Nation’s security,” Trump directed DHS in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget to use funds that have “a reasonable and logical nexus to the functions of DHS” to pay the salaries of every DHS employee. The move by the president comes as congressional Republican leaders h