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\n Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at 14 major US airports<\/a> four days ago to assist Transportation Security Administration workers as Congress keeps haggling over how to end the partial government shutdown<\/a> that has driven mounting TSA staffing shortages and the longest security wait times ever.\n <\/p>\n

\n But President Donald Trump indicated Thursday<\/a> he is instructing the Department of Homeland Security to \u201cimmediately pay\u201d TSA agents in a bid to reduce long lines at airports.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump plans to pay TSA workers who are going without paychecks by using funding from the legislation he signed last year known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, according to two people familiar with the plans.\n <\/p>\n

\n How soon TSA employees will get checks will depend on how quickly the internal review to pay them using funds from the bill can work, one person told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Shortly after Trump\u2019s announcement, the stalemate on Capitol Hill began to shift as the Senate unanimously agreed<\/a> during an overnight session to fund most of DHS, including the TSA.\n <\/p>\n

\n The bill still needs approval from the House before shuttered agencies within DHS can reopen.\n <\/p>\n

\n As the situation remains uncertain, ICE agents continue to direct snaking security lines and pass out water bottles to tired travelers. It\u2019s unclear whether the ICE agents deployed at Trump\u2019s request to help manage the chaos have made a significant dent as wait times begin to tick up again as the weekend nears.\n <\/p>\n

\n ICE agents have started verifying travelers\u2019 IDs at some airports, DHS confirmed Wednesday. They have also been guarding entrances and exits, helping with logistics and crowd control after \u201creceiving standard TSA training curriculum,\u201d DHS said.\n <\/p>\n

\n ICE agents are not trained to do specialized security screening tasks, such as operating X-ray machines, White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday. Instead, they take on simpler tasks, ideally freeing up more TSA employees to perform critical screening work.\n <\/p>\n

\n It is difficult to measure how the presence of ICE agents has directly affected travelers. Many factors, including the number of travelers and available security checkpoints, impact wait times.\n <\/p>\n

\n The White House press secretary said Wednesday the ICE deployment has been \u201cyielding results.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWait times have improved since ICE arrived, and they are doing everything in their power to help their fellow federal service members,\u201d Karoline Leavitt said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The middle of the week, however, is typically the slowest time for air travel, and Leavitt seemed to acknowledge there was room for improvement.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe have seen wait times decrease \u2013 not as much as we\u2019d like,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n ICE agents arrived at airports Monday during peak travel times. About 2.6 million people passed through TSA on Monday compared to 2.2 million on Tuesday, data from the agency<\/a> shows \u2013 and wait times ticked up at major travel hubs Thursday morning.\n <\/p>\n

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\n No significant progress on Capitol Hill has been made on a deal<\/a> to fund DHS, which includes the TSA, as lawmakers are set to leave Friday for a two-week recess. A new push for a deal is underway as airport officials warn of dire fallout if the crisis continues.\n <\/p>\n

\n Without a funding solution, overwhelmed airports will go into the busy weekend travel days with spring break travel also in full swing and only a fraction of their security screening capabilities. TSA workers have been quitting or calling out in droves after going six weeks without pay.\n <\/p>\n

\n More than 3,120 TSA officers did not show up to work Wednesday, according to TSA figures released Thursday. The callout rate of 11.14% is just below the record of 11.76% that was set on Sunday. Nearly 500 TSA officers have quit since the beginning if the shut down, according to DHS.\n <\/p>\n

\n Scrambling to address traveler frustrations, airports have redirected employees from other departments, alerted travelers to arrive hours earlier than planned and brought in outside security personnel.\n <\/p>\n

\n Houston\u2019s George Bush Intercontinental Airport \u2013 where wait times swelled to four hours<\/a> again early Thursday \u2013 has seen some of the most severe impacts<\/a>, along with travel hubs in New York and Atlanta.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cWe worry conditions will only get worse at airports across the US until Congress ends this shutdown,\u201d Jim Szczesniak, director of aviation for the Houston Airport System, said in a recorded statement Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n TSA has sent 32 officers from its National Deployment Office to George Bush Intercontinental as of Thursday, the airport said in a post on X<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n While passenger volumes in Houston declined somewhat Wednesday, the city\u2019s airports are expected to handle a significant number of travelers Thursday and Friday, in part because an energy conference there is concluding, and the city is hosting three NCAA men\u2019s basketball tournament games<\/a>, the city\u2019s airport system said<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Jennifer Clark was in a long security line at George Bush Intercontinental Thursday hoping to get to her son\u2019s first flight as a flight attendant for United Airlines.\n <\/p>\n

\n She and her family flew to Houston to watch her son graduate United flight attendant training, but Clark worried she wouldn\u2019t make it on time to board with him.\n <\/p>\n

\n Clark said she\u2019d be \u201ca little heartbroken\u201d if she doesn\u2019t make the flight, but fortunately was able to get through security in time to make it.\n <\/p>\n

\n At New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport<\/a> on Thursday morning, the wait time in one general security line was nearly two hours, CNN\u2019s Leigh Waldman reported from the site. The line doubled back on itself, filling the hall, video showed, and the TSA PreCheck line took just over 40 minutes to clear.\n <\/p>\n

\n The PreCheck line Thursday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport stretched out the door, CNN employee Jonathan Hawkins, traveling through the airport, said. To accommodate the mass of passengers, the line snakes through baggage claim and around the terminal.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAtmosphere is largely good-natured. People seem to have arrived expecting a long wait,\u201d Hawkins said.\n <\/p>\n

\n It took Hawkins about an hour to get to where the TSA PreCheck line normally starts, and 45 more minutes to get through security.\n <\/p>\n

\n A CNN crew at Hartsfield-Jackson saw three ICE agents checking IDs at security lines and moving people through the main checkpoints. Private security personnel were assisting at the bins.\n <\/p>\n

\n The first time a traveler interacts with TSA in this line is at the metal detector, as TSA agents are still monitoring the X-ray machines.\n <\/p>\n

\n When a man at Hartsfield-Jackson had a medical emergency near a Delta counter just before noon Thursday, ICE agents assisted him until Atlanta Police and Atlanta Fire and Rescue could take over.\n <\/p>\n

\n Additionally, DHS said an ICE officer saved the life of a 1-year-old child at John F. Kennedy International Airport when the child was unable to breathe for almost two minutes.\n <\/p>\n

\n The child\u2019s father was holding the child in his arms while in a TSA PreCheck line when the child became unresponsive, the agency said in a news release.\n <\/p>\n

\n The agent heard the screams from the father and other passengers before \u201csprinting to the scene\u201d and performing the Heimlich maneuver, officials said. The child started breathing again after a few seconds, was reassessed and determined to be healthy enough to fly.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf our agent had not been there and stepped up, this would have been a tragic outcome,\u201d DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in the news release.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The middle of this week \u2013 again, typically the slowest time for air travel \u2013 offered some reprieve, as security wait times had returned to normal in several airports by Wednesday, with some exceptions.\n <\/p>\n

\n George Bush Intercontinental in Houston reported a two-hour wait Wednesday afternoon, down from more than four hours earlier in the week. The airport can operate only about half of its 37 TSA checkpoints because of staff shortages, Szczesniak said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo that\u2019s 100% spring break loads going through the airport being processed through less than 50% of our TSA lanes,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is not sustainable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Nearly 40% of the Houston airport\u2019s TSA officers called out of work Tuesday, DHS reported. The airport has redirected employees from unrelated departments to handle crowds.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cWe\u2019ve reassigned hundreds of employees from across our organization, from finance to IT to maintenance and more, to help manage lines and assist travelers,\u201d Szczesniak said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Several airports have tried to mitigate long waits by asking flyers to arrive far ahead of typically recommended times.\n <\/p>\n

\n Airports in New York and New Jersey have brought in civilian security and police officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the region\u2019s major airports, the agency said. Still, those additional personnel may not operate security screening checkpoints and are only assisting with crowd control.\n <\/p>\n

\n Farther south, security lines were long Thursday morning at Baltimore\/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the airport said in a post on X<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Officials told spring breakers to expect long lines through the weekend, encouraging travelers to arrive at the airport three hours early.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cCheckpoint wait times are generally at their worst in the morning with fluctuations throughout the day,\u201d the message states.\n <\/p>\n

\n While travelers may feel inconvenienced by the delays, many unpaid TSA workers\u2019 lives have been overturned. They have reported empty fridges, eviction notices and overdrawn bank accounts.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOfficers are reportedly sleeping in their cars at airports to save gas money, selling their blood and plasma, and taking on second and third jobs to make ends meet, all while expected to perform at the highest level when in uniform to protect the traveling public,\u201d TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said during a House Oversight hearing on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Tatiana Finlay, a TSA union member, told CNN, \u201cAt this point, it has come to the point of, like, having to skip meals because I have to make sure that my kids are fed.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Many TSA employees live paycheck to paycheck<\/a>, making an average $35,000 a year, according to the American Federation of Government Employees union. If a funding solution isn\u2019t reached by Friday, workers will miss a second full paycheck.\n <\/p>\n

\n In addition to those who have quit or called out, some TSA workers who do want to come to work are struggling to get there.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cJust yesterday, I watched an officer receive a gas card from one of our partners,\u201d said Szczesniak, of the Houston Airport System. \u201cThey had tears in their eyes knowing that they could fill up their tank to get home and come back to work to help keep these lines moving.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Airport officials are providing meals to TSA workers as well as collaborating with the Houston Food Bank and other nonprofits, he said Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN senior editor Joe Sutton, who was traveling from Hartsfield-Jackson Thursday morning, said the crowds and the partial shutdown were taking their toll on TSA workers.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou could see they are tired and just look a bit defeated,\u201d Sutton said. \u201cBut trying to keep some energy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n TSA union workers have said the assistance of ICE agents \u2013 who are getting a paycheck \u2013 is far from a solution. Finlay called it \u201cunacceptable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat\u2019s like giving a person dying of pneumonia a teaspoon of cough syrup,\u201d said Everett Kelly, the AFGE\u2019s national president. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t address the problem and it\u2019s not gonna work.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n This story has been updated with additional information.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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