TSA Worker Pay, ‘No Kings’ Rallies, Savannah Guthrie’s Return and more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm Erin Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Friday, March 27th. |
| 0:07.0 | So, after the Senate worked all night to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except ICE and Border Patrol, |
| 0:14.0 | and President Trump moved to pay TSA workers through executive action, the question is, how fast will these security agents get paid, show back up to |
| 0:22.4 | work, and get some of these crazy wait times down? No surprise, the picture in Washington is muddy at best. |
| 0:29.4 | The Senate package still has to get voted on by the House, signed by Trump, and it's unclear |
| 0:34.6 | exactly when all of that will happen. So where does the sleep travelers in the meantime? |
| 0:40.0 | In the case of Diane Drummond at LaGuardia in New York, pissed off. |
| 0:44.2 | Everybody's affected by this. It's ridiculous. |
| 0:46.6 | Congress needs to do their job. |
| 0:48.3 | Stop fencing around and mess it up everyone's lives. |
| 0:51.4 | CNN's Ed Lavendera is at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport, where he's been seeing |
| 0:56.5 | lines that stretch outside of the terminal. |
| 0:59.2 | So, Ed, is all that news in Washington helping things there at all? |
| 1:03.1 | The situation here is absolutely not getting better. |
| 1:06.6 | We are seeing even despite officials here at the airport saying that some 32 additional TSA staff |
| 1:13.7 | have been sent to this airport, despite the ICE agents being here, there's still no significant |
| 1:19.7 | difference in the change of lines. |
| 1:21.3 | And what stands out to me is the lengths that people are doing or going to to make sure |
| 1:25.4 | that they don't miss their flights. |
| 1:26.8 | In many cases, they're showing up seven to eight hours ahead of their scheduled flight time and just to make |
| 1:32.5 | sure that they don't miss their flight. More news coming up, including some of the big decisions |
| 1:38.0 | facing President Donald Trump. There once was a woman who lived in a shoe, A size too snug, but what could she do? |
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