President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would order the newly sworn in secretary of homeland security, Markwayne Mullin, to pay Transportation Security Administration agents as the department’s ongoing shutdown drags on and negotiations in Congress appear stalled.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump said he would order Mullin “to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.”
“It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!” he continued. “I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. I will not allow the Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer.”