Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will temporarily pay TSA agents after a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security stalled in Congress.

DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says workers should begin receiving paychecks Monday.

House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the agency

because it wouldn't have funded ICE and border patrol. Democrats like House Minority Leader

Hakeem Jeffrey say they won't support funding those departments without changes to immigration

enforcement. Immigration enforcement should focus on violent felons who are in this country illegally, not target

law-abiding immigrant families or brutalize and in some cases kill American citizens.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called the Senate bill the most reckless thing we've ever

seen.

This gambit that was done last night is a joke. I'm quite convinced that it can't be that every

Senate Republican read the language of this bill. Johnson says the House will instead vote tonight

on a resolution to fund DHS at current levels until May. Congress is about to be out on spring break until mid-April.

At a conference of conservative activists, a top Justice Department official said one of

the administration's greatest accomplishments was pardoning people charged after the January 6th riot.

NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports.

On his first day in office, President Trump issued mass

pardons to the people charged or convicted for their role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol

on January 6, 2021, including those who violently assaulted police. Deputy Attorney General

Todd Blanche celebrated that decision at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

If you look at what happened to the men and women convicted because of January 6th,

every one of them was either pardoned or had their sentence commuted, okay?

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