March 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that Transportation Security Administration employees will begin receiving paychecks as the department's shutdown continues.
There was movement on Capitol Hill toward ending the shutdown and partially funding DHS on Friday. After the Senate unanimously voted to pass a bill that would fund the department, aside from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. House rejected the bill outright.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the House will pursue its own bill that would fully fund the department for 60 days. Johnson said the Senate's bill would not move forward because it did not include funding for ICE.
President Donald Trump was also critical of the Senate-passed bill, saying it "wasn't appropriate." He signed an executive order to direct payment toward the more than 60,000 TSA employees.
"Today, at the direction of President Trump and the Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to UPI. "TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30."
