白宫官员称，TSA拥有与其他机构”不同的资金来源”，其员工将不会获得薪酬
亚历克斯·米勒
福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年2月28日 美国东部时间上午10:00
美国运输安全管理局(TSA)员工正濒临无薪工作的境地，目前没有应急计划来确保他们不会错过工资。
去年历史最长的政府停摆期间，白宫能够从共和党人的”庞大美好法案”中重新调配资金，以确保现役军人获得薪酬。但TSA员工不会得到同样的待遇。
超过6万名TSA员工本周将因本月早些时候资金到期前的工作获得部分薪水。在国会就为该机构提供资金达成协议之前，他们不会再收到另一笔薪水。
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（弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿市罗纳德·里根华盛顿国家机场，TSA人员正在扫描行李。Valerie Plesch/Getty Images）
而且，这种情况很快解决的可能性很低。
南达科他州共和党联邦参议员、参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示，如果特朗普政府能够”想办法支付政府雇员的工资，那绝对可以”。
“我的意思是，这些人有工作、有家庭责任，”图恩说，”如果我们最终走到人们因民主党继续坚持修改那些不可行或站不住脚的事情而无法获得薪酬的地步，那将非常不幸，我希望我们不会走到这一步。”
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但白宫一位官员在一份声明中告诉福克斯新闻数字版，就像43天的停摆一样，特朗普政府将能够转移资金”以支付国土安全部中由法案资助的特定员工——即执法人员和现役军人，如美国海岸警卫队人员”。
“TSA不在此列，因为他们有与这些其他机构不同的资金来源，”该官员表示。
共和党人认为，停摆的关键影响因素可能是机场排队时间变长和航班取消开始累积，因为员工无薪工作并休假。上一次停摆时也出现了类似情况，航班取消一天比一天严重。
“当人们开始错过薪水，旅行等方面开始出现混乱时，情况会越来越令人痛苦，”图恩说，”所以最好能在这之前解决问题，避免所有这些情况发生，但我们需要一个真正愿意达成协议的合作伙伴。”
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参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩再次试图推动全年预算法案以重新开放国土安全部，但被参议院民主党人第二次阻止。（Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images）
以纽约州民主党联邦参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默为首的白宫和参议院民主党人，在寻找国土安全部(DHS)的资金妥协方案上存在分歧，本周解决持续停摆的希望迅速渺茫。
双方在过去两周内拒绝了来回的提议。参议院民主党人认为，目前该机构是否重新开放以及TSA员工能否获得薪酬，取决于白宫和共和党人。
参议院民主党人将谈判描述为完全停滞，并将进一步对话的责任推给特朗普政府。
“我们告诉他们我们的优先事项是什么，他们的回应非常非常微弱且有限，”华盛顿州民主党参议员帕蒂·默里说，”我们说，‘不，这是我们的要求，我们做了一些修改’，但没有得到回应。”
当被问及是否认为白宫在真诚谈判时，默里表示：”还没有。”
但参议院共和党人表示，成员之间正在进行谈判。
阿拉巴马州共和党参议员凯蒂·布里特希望能说服足够多的参议院民主党人达成共识，确保TSA特工及其他人员在可预见的未来不会无薪工作。
“我正在努力与各方沟通，”布里特说。
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亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字版记者，专门报道美国参议院动态。
TSA workers brace for missed paychecks as Democrats hold firm on DHS funding
White House official says TSA has ‘different funding stream’ from other agencies, workers won’t be paid
By Alex Miller
Fox News
Published February 28, 2026 10:00am EST
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers are on the cusp of working without pay, and there is no backup plan in place to ensure they don’t miss a check.
During the longest government shutdown in history last year, the White House was able to shift around funding from the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” to ensure that military service members were paid. But TSA workers won’t get the same treatment.
Over 60,000 TSA workers are set to receive partial paychecks this week for the work they did before funding expired earlier this month. They won’t get another paycheck until Congress can land on a deal to fund the agency.
TSA agents scan luggage at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.(Valerie Plesch/Getty Images)
And the likelihood of that wrapping sooner rather than later is low.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that if the Trump administration could “figure out a way to pay government employees, absolutely.”
“I mean, these are people who have jobs and have commitments and have families,” Thune said. “And, you know, it’s going to be really unfortunate if we get to a point where I hope we don’t, where people aren’t getting paid because the Democrats continue to insist on changes to things that are just not feasible or tenable.”
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus have not relented in their position as DHS enters its 14th day of being shut down.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
But a White House official told Fox News Digital in a statement that, like the 43-day shutdown, the Trump administration would be able to transfer funding “to cover certain employees at DHS that were funded by the bill — namely law enforcement and active-duty military such as USCG.”
“TSA has not been part of that, as they have a different funding stream from these other agencies,” the official said.
Republicans believe that a key difference maker in the shutdown could be longer lines at airports and flight cancellations start to stack up as workers go without pay and take time off. A similar scenario played out during the previous shutdown, when cancellations compounded day after day.
“When people start missing paychecks, and you start having disruptions in travel and that sort of thing, it’s going to get more and more painful,” Thune said. “So it’d be nice to fix this before and to avoid all that, but we’ve got to have a partner that actually wants to make a deal.”
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., again tried to ram a full-year funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security but was blocked by Senate Democrats for a second time.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The White House and Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have been at odds over finding a compromise deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with hopes for a quick resolution to the ongoing shutdown quickly fading this week.
Both sides have rejected back-and-forth offers over the last two weeks. Senate Democrats argued that, for now, whether the agency would be reopened and TSA workers get paid was in the White House and Republicans’ hands.
Senate Democrats portrayed negotiations as having totally flatlined and put the onus of further conversations on the Trump administration.
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“We told them what our priorities were, they answered with a very, very weak, limited response,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said. “And we said, ‘No, this is what our requests were. We made a few changes,’ nothing back.”
When asked if she believed the White House was negotiating in good faith, Murray said, “Not yet.”
But Senate Republicans said that talks were happening on the side among members.
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., hoped that she could convince enough Senate Democrats to come around and ensure that TSA agents, and others, wouldn’t go without pay for the foreseeable future.
“I am working on talking to people,” Britt said.
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Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.