Gov't Shutdown Ain’t Over Yet: Congress Went Home, TSA Workers In Limbo
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The Senate and the House rejected each other’s bills late yesterday, then headed home for Easter, leaving DHS unfunded for at least another 2 weeks. While President Trump signed an order to pay TSA workers, it’s unclear when they’ll be paid, how much they’ll be paid, and for how long?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.5 | It is Saturday, March 28th, and the president announced he was going to order that TSA agents get paid. |
| 0:23.6 | The Senate came to a bipartisan agreement about ending the partial shutdown. So why is it here |
| 0:29.2 | on this Saturday morning TSA agents are still stressed? With that, welcome to this episode of |
| 0:35.6 | Amy and T.J. Robs we we were on recording yesterday and we were |
| 0:40.7 | we were a little gleeful we were a little excited like wow great they're going to get them paid |
| 0:44.8 | this morning i cannot believe where we are yeah i was so excited the senate unanimously after |
| 0:50.1 | all of those failed voting attempts passed a partial funding bill to get TSA workers paid. |
| 0:57.2 | Hallelujah. |
| 0:57.8 | The House had already passed three different versions of their own over the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:01.9 | So it was a foregone conclusion. |
| 1:03.4 | They were going to pass the Senate bill because the Republicans control the House. |
| 1:07.2 | And this was all going to finally end. |
| 1:10.1 | I cannot believe this. Good morning to you, folks. We all going to finally end. I cannot believe this. |
| 1:13.0 | Good morning to you, folks. |
| 1:13.8 | We are talking to you on this Saturday morning. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, getting our day started like a lot of folks are and a lot of folks are heading to airports |
| 1:20.9 | and they're going to find the same messes at the airports they've seen over the past six weeks. |
| 1:25.1 | And part of that has to do, well, if not just that TSA agents are getting paid. We've had some developments, |
| 1:31.8 | and it seems they still don't know exactly when they're going to get paid, how much |
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