2026年3月17日 / 美国东部时间下午5:48 / CBS新闻
据多名美国官员和国土安全部发言人透露，尽管政府部分停摆，国土安全部仍在使用可自由支配资金继续向现役美国海岸警卫队人员支付薪水，而文职雇员仍未获得报酬。
发言人在给CBS新闻的声明中表示：“军事人员上周收到了最新的薪水。美国海岸警卫队文职人员没有收到薪水。”
自2月中旬国会就移民执法问题谈判破裂导致资金失效以来，国土安全部超过25万名员工的薪资一直悬而未决。海岸警卫队约有76,600名员工，其中包括约41,200名现役军人、6,400名预备役人员和19,700名辅助人员，以及约9,300名文职雇员。
对于军人家庭而言，薪资的不确定性造成了经济压力。克里斯汀·奥谢尔德斯（Christine O’Shields）是一名海岸警卫队军官的配偶，其丈夫已服役近21年。她表示，在家庭最初预计会无薪后，最近的薪水单却毫无预警地到账了。她将上周薪水的到来描述为“一个惊喜”。
“这就像坐过山车一样，我们不知道会不会拿到薪水，”她说，“实际上，直到薪水进入我们的账户，我们才知道是否会到账。”
奥谢尔德斯表示，这种不可预测性迫使家庭推迟重大财务决策和日常开支，包括旅行、儿童保育，甚至和孩子外出就餐。随着家庭准备可能的搬迁，她质疑在没有可靠收入证明的情况下如何规划购房。
“如果我们甚至无法提供薪水证明，我们怎么知道能买得起多大的房子？”她说。
截至本周，一名美国官员告诉CBS新闻，由于与伊朗的持续战争，约有300名美国海岸警卫队人员驻扎在中东，主要是在巴林和阿曼。
停摆也影响了国土安全部的其他部门，包括运输安全管理局（TSA）人员和网络安全与基础设施安全局雇员，其中许多人在无薪工作或被休假。由于未收到薪水，大量TSA特工请假，导致一些机场安检点排长队。
TSA副局长亚当·斯塔尔（Adam Stahl）告诉CBS新闻，该机构通过国会拨款来协助员工度过停摆期的能力“非常有限”，但“我可以向你强调，我们正在尽一切努力”。
相比之下，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）和海关与边境保护局（CBP）的移民人员在很大程度上继续运作，干扰最小。这些机构因去年夏天国会共和党人通过的《超级美丽法案》（One Big Beautiful Bill Act）而资金充裕，该法案为两个机构拨款超过1500亿美元。
将于本月底离职的国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）在3月初告诉议员，ICE和特勤局特工仍在获得薪水。
特朗普政府过去曾使用可自由支配资金继续向部分联邦雇员支付薪水。去年秋天持续43天的政府停摆期间，军人、FBI特工和国土安全部执法人员继续领取薪水。
奥谢尔德斯批评议员们允许反复停摆破坏军人家庭的财务稳定。
“停止把我们当作你们游戏中的棋子，结束这场闹剧，”她说，并敦促美国人联系他们的国会议员表达关切。
以军人家庭为中心的非营利组织“蓝星家庭”（Blue Star Families）首席执行官兼创始人凯西·罗斯·杜奎特（Kathy Roth Douquet）在一份声明中表示：“政府停摆的影响远超出华盛顿的政策辩论，它直接影响到我们的军人家庭。这种不确定性持续时间的未知正在造成损失。军人的战备从家庭开始，当家庭焦虑或经济紧张时，会影响到我们的国家安全。”
国会尚未通过新的资金来重新开放国土安全部，民主党人推动对国土安全部以移民为重点的机构进行改革，以换取他们为该部门提供资金的投票。议员们在最近几周举行了多次投票，包括参议院一项未能推进的拨款提案和众议院民主党支持的竞争性措施，这些都被否决，导致该部门没有获得全年拨款。
与此同时，俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员马克韦恩·穆林（Markwayne Mullin）是特朗普提名的国土安全部负责人，他定于周三在参议院国土安全和政府事务委员会举行公开确认听证会。他将监督的部门仍处于停摆状态，且没有明确的重新开放时间表。
谈判预计本周继续，但国会领导人尚未宣布解决僵局的前进道路。
美国海岸警卫队请CBS新闻联系国土安全部置评。
克里斯·范克利夫（Kris Van Cleave）为本报道撰稿。
DHS keeps paying Coast Guard personnel despite partial government shutdown
March 17, 2026 / 5:48 PM EDT / CBS News
The Department of Homeland Security is using discretionary funding to continue paying active-duty U.S. Coast Guard personnel during the department’s ongoing shutdown, even as civilian employees remain unpaid, according to several U.S. officials and a department spokesperson.
“Military members received their latest paycheck last week. USCG civilian workforce is not receiving paychecks,” the spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News.
Pay for DHS’s more than 250,000 employees has been up in the air since its funding lapsed in mid-February due to a breakdown in negotiations in Congress over immigration enforcement. Roughly 76,600 people work for the Coast Guard, including roughly 41,200 active-duty service members, 6,400 reservists and 19,700 auxiliarists, alongside about 9,300 civilian employees.
For military families, the uncertainty around pay has created financial strain. Christine O’Shields, a Coast Guard spouse whose husband has served nearly 21 years, said recent paychecks arrived without warning after families initially expected to go unpaid. She described the arrival of last week’s paycheck as a “surprise.”
“It is this roller coaster of, are we going to get paid, and are we not going to get paid?” she said. “We don’t know, literally, till it hits our account if it’s going to come or not.”
O’Shields said the unpredictability has forced families to delay major financial decisions and everyday expenses, including travel, childcare and even meals out with their children. As her family prepares for a potential move, she questioned how they could plan for a home purchase without reliable income documentation.
“How do we even know how much of a house we can buy if we can’t even provide pay statements?” she said.
As of this week, a U.S. official told CBS News roughly 300 U.S. Coast Guard personnel are stationed in the Middle East, primarily in Bahrain and Oman, amid the ongoing war with Iran.
The shutdown is also affecting other DHS components, including Transportation Security Administration officers and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employees, many of whom are working without pay or are furloughed. Large numbers of TSA agents have called out of work due to missing paychecks, leading to long lines at some airport security checkpoints.
TSA Deputy Administrator Adam Stahl told CBS News the agency’s ability to assist its staff through the shutdown is “very much constrained” by congressional appropriations, but “I can tell you emphatically that we’re doing absolutely everything we can.”
In contrast, immigration personnel at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection are largely continuing operations with minimal disruption. Those agencies are flush with cash due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which congressional Republicans passed last summer, allotting more than $150 billion to both agencies.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who is departing her job at the end of this month, told lawmakers in early March that ICE and Secret Service agents are still getting paid.
The Trump administration has used discretionary funding to keep paying some federal employees in the past. During a 43-day-long government shutdown last fall, members of the military, FBI agents and DHS law enforcement personnel continued to get paychecks.
O’Shields criticized lawmakers for allowing repeated shutdowns to disrupt military families’ financial stability.
“Stop using us as pawns in your game and finish the game,” she said, urging Americans to contact their members of Congress to register their concerns.
Kathy Roth Douquet, the CEO and founder of military family-focused nonprofit Blue Star Families, said in a statement: “Government shutdowns ripple far beyond policy debates in Washington, they hit home for our military families. The uncertainty surrounding how long that will last is taking a toll. Military readiness begins at home, and when families are anxious or financially stretched, it impacts our national security.”
Congress has yet to pass new funding to reopen DHS, as Democrats push for reforms to DHS’s immigration-focused agencies in exchange for their votes to fund the department. Lawmakers have held multiple votes in recent weeks, including on a Senate funding proposal that failed to advance and competing Democratic-backed measures in the House that have also been blocked, leaving the department without a full-year appropriation.
Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, President Trump’s nominee to lead DHS, is scheduled to appear Wednesday for a public confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as the department he would oversee remains shut down with no clear timeline for reopening.
Negotiations are expected to continue this week, but congressional leaders have not announced a path forward to resolve the standoff.
The U.S. Coast Guard referred CBS News to DHS for comment.
Kris Van Cleave contributed to this report.
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