2026年4月7日 / 美国东部时间下午5:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
北卡罗来纳州奇米尼罗克讯——国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林斯周二承诺，受持续政府停摆影响的国土安全部员工有望在本周底前拿到工资。
正在进行首次正式出访的马林斯当时正在北卡罗来纳州奇米尼罗克，他表示，过去六周一直无薪工作的部门员工很快就能收到覆盖近期薪资周期的欠薪。
“我们预计大部分人的工资将于周五到账，”他对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道，“部分金融机构可能需要等到周一，但绝大多数人届时都能拿到薪资。”
国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林斯（右）与市长彼得·奥利里交谈，2026年4月7日在北卡罗来纳州奇米尼罗克视察飓风海伦造成的破坏时。丽贝卡·桑塔纳 / 美联社
这位部长表示，此次发薪通过行政行动和现有资金灵活性得以实现，但他警告称，除执法人员外，国土安全部员工未来的薪资发放将完全取决于国会。
“往后我们只能等待国会的决定。这次只是权宜之计，”他说道，并提到国土安全部每两周的薪资支出数额巨大。
马林斯毫不留情地批评了导致停摆的民主党人。
“他们愿意削减经费，关停22个负责保障国土安全的机构，”他说道，将联邦政府第三大部门国土安全部比作规模最大的国防部。尽管出现资金断供，马林斯表示国土安全部的运作仍在继续，并称赞了那些不顾薪资不确定因素仍坚持到岗的员工。“大家仍然坚守岗位……这是我麾下员工展现出的极高奉献精神，”他说道。
当哥伦比亚广播公司新闻追问资金来源时，马林斯表示特朗普政府正援引一项赋予总统在紧急情况下调动资金有限权限的条款。他称这一条款让国土安全部“获得了一点灵活性……动用原本用于应对此类情况的资金”，但他强调此举属于行政行动，并非长期解决方案。
All DHS workers to be paid by end of week for past 6 weeks of shutdown
April 7, 2026 / 5:40 PM EDT / CBS News
Chimney Rock, North Carolina— Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, promised Tuesday that DHS employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown can expect to receive paychecks by the end of the week.
Mullin, who was traveling for his first official visit as DHS secretary, in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, said department employees who’ve been working without pay for the past six weeks would see the missing payments covering recent pay periods in their accounts soon.
“We expect most of those checks to be in their banks by Friday,” he told CBS News. “Some of the financial institutions may have to wait till Monday, but the majority of everybody will be paid by then.”
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, right, talks with Mayor Peter O’Leary, during a trip to survey damage caused by Hurricane Helene, April 7, 2026 in Chimney Rock, N.C. Rebecca Santana / AP
The secretary said the payments are being made possible through executive action and existing funding flexibility, but he warned that future payroll for DHS employees — outside of law enforcement officials — would depend entirely on Congress.
“Going forward, we got to wait on Congress. This was kind of a rifle shot,” he said, noting the high cost of DHS payroll every two weeks.
Mullin pulled no punches in dressing down Democrats for the delay.
“They’re willing to defund and shut down 22 agencies that are tasked to keep the homeland safe,” he said, likening DHS, the third largest department in the federal government, to the biggest, the Pentagon. Despite the funding lapse, Mullin said DHS operations remain active, crediting employees who have continued to report to work without the certainty of pay. “People are still showing up to work … that’s a tremendous amount of dedication from employees that I get to be over right now,” he said.
When pressed by CBS News on the source of the appropriations, Mullin said the Trump administration is relying on a provision that gives the president limited the ability to move funds in emergencies. He described it as allowing DHS “a little bit of flexibility … with the dollars that were set up to allow us to do stuff just like this,” but he emphasized the move required executive action and is not a long-term solution.
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