Welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Kristen Welker in Washington.

That was the closing bell as the sell-off on Wall Street picked up steam today amid rising concerns about

the war against Iran and global oil supplies. The Dow falling roughly 800 points entering

correction territory down 10% off recent highs. Stocks were slammed across the board and U.S. oil

prices spiking again, topping $100 a barrel.

We will have much more on the war and the growing economic fallout in just a moment, but we do have

to begin with the breaking news on the partial government shutdown with President Trump now

trying to bypass Congress and unilaterally fund TSA as congressional gridlock threatens to extend the shutdown of

the Department of Homeland Security and the historic travel chaos at airports all across the country.

The president officially delivering that order after Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a deal that

Senate Republicans passed overnight with Democratic support that would have funded the TSA and most of DHS, but not ICE or Border Patrol.

Speaker Johnson instead is going to have the House vote to fund all of DHS for 60 days, including ICE and border patrol.

The move essentially ensures more gridlock, but Speaker Johnson telling reporters

his plan has the president's support.

This gambit that was done last night is a joke. We're going to put a clean, simple,

continuing resolution that will go until May 22nd. It's just a number of weeks to allow for all those who

sacrificially serve the country and protect other Americans, all these agencies, 10 agencies

on the Department of Homeland Security, will continue at their current funding levels to make

sure that they are protected. We're not playing political games on this. We encourage some

of our Democrats, hopefully we'll have some of our Democrats in the House who go along with this and stop the pain that's being forced upon

these people. I spoke to the president a few moments ago. He understands exactly what we're doing

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