Airport wait times appear to be shorter as workers received back pay for two whole paychecks
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Airport wait times appear to be shorter as workers received back pay for two whole paychecks
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued its employees back pay on Monday, after Donald Trump signed an order for them to be paid even as a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security drags on, with no end in sight.
The paychecks appear to have relieved severe congestion at airport TSA checkpoints, which resulted in hours-long lines at several major air hubs over the past two weeks but brought Congress no closer to resolving the standoff over the the DHS’s budget.
Continue reading...Source: Guardian - World News
