独家报道： 一位负责监督美国运输安全管理局（TSA）的关键国会议员认为，唐纳德·特朗普总统针对部分国土安全部（DHS）停摆的新计划将减少全国范围内机场长达数小时的延误。
“我认为这会有帮助，并且会大大加快流程，”佛罗里达州共和党众议员、众议院国土安全委员会运输小组委员会主席卡洛斯·希门尼斯（Carlos Gimenez）告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
“目前，我们不仅因为疾病而失去TSA特工，其中一些人实际上站起来，你知道，基本上说，‘就这样吧，我受够了。每六个月我都得忍受这些麻烦。’他们说，‘这不适合我。’我们需要停止这种情况。”
特朗普周日宣布，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工将被部署到全国各地的机场，以帮助缓解因持续37天的国土安全部（DHS）停摆而造成的旅行混乱。
一位资深共和党众议员表示，特朗普总统让ICE驻守机场的计划将减少国土安全部停摆造成的持续旅行混乱。(Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“周一，ICE将前往机场帮助我们出色的TSA特工，尽管激进的左翼民主党人只专注于保护非法进入我国的强硬罪犯，却通过扣留早已通过签署和密封合同约定的资金来危害美国，等等，”特朗普在Truth Social上写道。
他在周一又发布了一条帖子，呼吁在机场工作的ICE特工不带口罩执行任务。口罩问题在国土安全部资金谈判中引发了激烈争议，民主党要求他们在执行移民执法任务时不戴口罩，而共和党人则坚持认为口罩对特工安全至关重要。
“我最初是在私营部门开始职业生涯的。在私营部门，客户永远是对的。……美国公民是我们的客户，所以我们不能让他们因为TSA特工越来越少而经历长时间等待，”希门尼斯表示。
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“考虑到民主党不会做正确的事来资助国土安全部，那么我认为你必须采取必要的行动。如果他们的计划是利用ICE特工来替代并加快机场排队速度，我对此表示支持。”
佛罗里达州共和党众议员卡洛斯·希门尼斯于2025年3月25日星期二在美国国会大厦举行的国会西班牙裔会议新闻发布会上发言。(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
随着停摆持续数周且看不到结束迹象，数万名TSA特工被迫无薪工作。这导致休斯顿、新泽西、纽约和路易斯安那州等主要枢纽机场出现数小时的延误。
尽管停摆结束后他们会获得欠薪，但目前缺乏定期 paychecks 已迫使大量特工请病假并寻找其他谋生方式。
民主党对特朗普的计划表示反对，因为ICE过去在移民问题上的策略颇具争议。例如，康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal）在X平台上发表声明称其“在道德、法律和政治上都不可接受”。
但希门尼斯指出，国土安全部（因此ICE）即将迎来新领导，俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员马克韦恩·穆林（Markwayne Mullin）将接替克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）担任内阁秘书。
他还表示，在最近与边境负责人汤姆·霍曼（Tom Homan）交谈后，他对ICE的方向感到“鼓舞”。
“我认为当ICE帮助TSA特工时，你们会看到他们不同的侧重点，”希门尼斯说。“如果[民主党]现在担心ICE特工在TSA设施中，为什么不资助国土安全部，这样就不必担心TSA设施中有ICE特工了？”
2026年3月23日星期一，ICE特工抵达纽约市肯尼迪机场。由于政府停摆导致人员短缺，这些特工被派来协助TSA特工。(David Dee Delgado for Fox News)
今年早些时候，民主党人集体退出两党资助国土安全部的协议，以抗议特朗普在明尼阿波利斯和美国其他地区的移民镇压行动，导致政府部分停摆。他们坚持要求对进行移民执法的联邦特工实施更严格的限制，而共和党人则认为其中几项限制是不可行的。
总统本人后来在谈判中设置了障碍，敦促共和党人在民主党通过一项无关的选举诚信法案《SAVE美国法案》之前拒绝任何计划。
共和党人也拒绝了民主党要求资助国土安全部所有部门（除移民执法机构外）的要求。
与去年美国历史上最长的全面政府停摆不同，当前停摆仅影响国土安全部——一个广泛的部门，包括ICE、海关和边境保护局（CBP）、TSA和联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）等多个机构。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德（Elizabeth Elkind）是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者，负责报道众议院。此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网发表文章。
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EXCLUSIVE: A key lawmaker charged with oversight of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) believes President Donald Trump’s new plan addressing the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reduce hours-long airport delays nationwide.
“I think it will help and it’ll speed up the process greatly,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., chair of the House Homeland Security Committee’s subcommittee on transportation, told Fox News Digital.
“Right now, we’re losing TSA agents not only due to sickness, but some of them are actually getting up, you know, basically saying, ‘That’s it, I’ve had enough. Every six months I’ve got to put up with this stuff.’ And they say, ‘This is not for me.’ We need to stop this.”
Trump announced Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be deployed to airports across the country to help ease travel chaos brought on by the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, which is now in its 37th day.
TRUMP SAYS ICE WILL DEPLOY TO AIRPORTS MONDAY TO ASSIST TSA AMID FUNDING STANDOFF
A top House Republican says President Donald Trump’s plan to have ICE at airports will cut down on the ongoing travel chaos caused by the DHS shutdown.(Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He followed it with another post Monday calling on ICE agents working at airports to do so without wearing face coverings. Masks have been a point of fierce contention in DHS funding talks, with Democrats demanding that they conduct immigration enforcement operations without them while Republicans insist they are critical to agents’ safety.
“I started out in the private sector. And in the private sector, the customer is always right. …The U.S. citizen is our customer, and so we can’t allow them to go through these long waits because we have less and less TSA agents,” Gimenez said.
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“In light of the fact that the Democrats will not do the right thing and fund DHS, then I think you have to do what you have to do. And if their plan is to use ICE agents in order to supplant and speed up the lines at the airports, I’m fine with that.”
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla, speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Conference press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Tens of thousands of TSA agents have been forced to work without pay for weeks as the shutdown draws on with no end in sight. It’s led to hours-long delays at airports in Houston, New Jersey, New York, and Louisiana, among other major hubs.
While they’re guaranteed to get back pay when the shutdown is over, the current lack of regular paychecks has forced scores of agents to call out sick and find other means of making ends meet.
Democrats have balked at Trump’s plan given ICE’s controversial tactics on immigration in the past. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., for example, called it “unacceptable morally, legally, politically” in a statement on X.
But Gimenez pointed out that DHS, and therefore ICE, will be under new leadership soon, with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., poised to replace Kristi Noem as Cabinet secretary.
He also said he was “heartened” about ICE’s direction after a recent conversation with border czar Tom Homan.
“I think you’re going to see a different emphasis by ICE when they are helping TSA agents,” Gimenez said. “If [Democrats] are worried about ICE agents now at TSA facilities, why don’t you just fund DHS and then you don’t have to worry about having ICE agents at TSA facilities?”
ICE agents arrive at JFK airport in New York City, N.Y., Monday, March 23, 2026. The agents are being brought in to assist TSA agents amid staffing shortages due to the government shutdown.(David Dee Delgado for Fox News)
The government was plunged into a partial shutdown earlier this year after Democrats walked away en masse from a bipartisan deal to fund DHS in protest of Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and other parts of the country. They’ve insisted on stricter guardrails on federal agents conducting immigration enforcement, several of which the GOP has dismissed as non-starters.
The president himself later threw a wrench into negotiations for a new deal, urging Republicans to reject any plan until Democrats pass an unrelated election integrity bill called the SAVE America Act.
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Republicans have also rejected Democrats’ demand to fund all of DHS excluding agencies responsible for immigration enforcement.
Unlike last year’s full government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, the current shutdown solely affects DHS — a wide-ranging department that includes a variety of agencies including ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the TSA, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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