DHS staffers are now getting paid during the shutdown. Here’s how | CNN Politics

Tens of thousands more Department of Homeland Security workers are being paid during the record partial government shutdown after President Donald Trump ordered the agency to send Transportation Security Administration employees their back pay. And soon 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 — should receive their back pay after Trump issued a similar directive for them last week. In an usual step, furloughed workers will also be paid, though they are not reporting to work, according to a DHS memo sent to employees earlier this week. TSA employees received a substantial part of their back pay last week and are set to receive the balance, along with their next scheduled paycheck, at the end of this week. Other DHS staffers should see their back pay hit their bank accounts between April 10 and April 16, according to the memo. They will also receive their next scheduled paycheck later this week. In their own words: Unpaid DHS workers have ‘never seen the morale so low’ However, while TSA workers can expect to receive another p