President Donald Trump on Friday signed an emergency order to give back pay to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees amid a nearly seven-week-long partial government shutdown.
Congress is in a stalemate in funding the agency, leaving tens of thousands of federal workers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies without pay for nearly two months.
It’s become the longest DHS shutdown in U.S. history.
Trump blamed Democrats for the lapse in funding, with the title of his memorandum “Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused Shutdown.”…
Trump Signs Emergency Order for All DHS Employees to Receive Back Pay
