The funding bill did not pass. Trump signs a memorandum to pay airport security personnel.

This article is reproduced from【Xinhua Net】；

On March 27, 2013, Xinhua News Agency, Washington, reported by reporters Yang Ling and Xiong Maoling) U.S. President Trump signed a memorandum on March 27 to provide pay to airport security screening personnel who have been unable to receive their salaries since the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Earlier, House Republicans rejected a Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate in the early hours of that day.

According to a presidential memorandum released by the White House on the 27th, Trump said that the Homeland Security shutdown has lasted for six weeks and that the U.S. aviation travel system is “on the verge of collapse.” He “has determined that these circumstances constitute an emergency that threatens national security,” and instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security to coordinate with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, using funds that have a “reasonable logical connection” to operations of the Transportation Security Administration, to pay salaries and benefits to Transportation Security Administration security screening personnel who have been unable to receive wages since February.

The Department of Homeland Security then posted on social media saying that the Transportation Security Administration has initiated the employee payroll process, and that employees should receive pay as early as the 30th.

In the early hours of the 27th, the Senate passed a bill to provide funding for most departments of the Department of Homeland Security, but it did not include appropriations for the immigration enforcement agencies. The bill was rejected by House Republicans. House Speaker and Republican Mike Johnson said that House Republicans will seek to pass a bill to fund all departments of the Department of Homeland Security at existing levels through May 22. In response, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer posted on social media, saying that the temporary appropriations bill is “not workable in the Senate at all,” and that Republicans know that full well.

The dispute between the two U.S. parties over the Homeland Security appropriations bill has been ongoing for weeks. In January, federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, the largest city in the state of Minnesota, shot and killed two U.S. citizens in succession, triggering protests across many parts of the country, with Democrats strongly calling for reforms to the Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement actions.

Due to the continued shutdown, operations at agencies under the Department of Homeland Security—including the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency—were severely affected, and airport screening systems in various places were hit the hardest.

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