独家福克斯新闻报道： 美国运输安全管理局（TSA）领导层表示，即便国会通过一项支出法案，机场和该局仍将因当前部分政府停摆而遭受“长期”负面影响。
TSA副局长亚当·斯塔尔（Adam Stahl）接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，详细阐述了该局将如何从TSA人员数周无薪工作的状况中恢复，并指出TSA称目前安检等待时间创历史最高。
“我现在可以告诉你，这次停摆带来的影响将是长期的。即便我们获得重新拨款和资金，特别是TSA所在部门的资金，这些影响仍将持续数天。”斯塔尔周三对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“我们已在采取积极措施，确保尽快让员工拿到工资。”
国土安全部（DHS）已超过40天未获资金支持，导致TSA安检人员和特工一个月未领全薪。请假人数激增到了惊人的水平，DHS称已有超过480人直接从TSA员工队伍中离职。
斯塔尔表示，即便国会为该局提供资金，也需要“时间来支付”那些一直无薪工作的特工的工资。
“我们有相应的系统，以及我们依赖的部门外的财务系统，用于发放和分散资金、工资给员工，但这需要一些时间。”斯塔尔解释道，“但我们正与合作伙伴尽快合作，确保一旦拿到资金，就能迅速行动，将工资发放到员工手中。”
TSA副局长还对潜在的资金方案通过后员工重返机场表示担忧，并指出今年在美国举办的世界杯将给航空安全带来额外压力。
“上一财年首次停摆后，我们立即看到人员流失率增加了25%。”斯塔尔对福克斯新闻数字频道称，“我们对此感到担忧，而且今年夏天旅游旺季本就繁忙，再加上预计将有600万至1000万额外旅客，我们长期来看可能会面临非常困难的局面。”
“重新调整以让员工拿到工资需要时间。”斯塔尔补充道。
周三晚间，为国土安全部提供资金的程序性投票失败，这已是该支出法案此前第五次被否决。
该法案要通过，必须获得60票才能打破阻挠议事。几位参议院民主党人已跨党派支持为该部门提供资金，但票数仍未达到60票。
参议院民主党人坚持要求在支出法案中纳入对移民和海关执法局（ICE）运作的修改，例如要求司法令状和禁止特工佩戴面部遮盖物。
参议院共和党人则表示，如果参议院民主党人希望进行改革，就必须也愿意为ICE提供资金。南达科他州共和党人、参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）称，民主党人“在原地打转”，而TSA、联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）和其他DHS员工仍在无薪工作。
“他们应该更清楚。”图恩在周三晚间投票后对记者表示，“他们要求的东西已经被否决过了。所以看起来他们只是在原地打转。”
纽约州民主党参议员少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）周三走上参议院讲台回击共和党人的立场。
“上周末，民主党人与共和党同事进行了建设性的面对面交谈。”舒默说，“他们（共和党同事）口头承认了我们一直寻求的一些改革是合理的。”
随着国会僵局持续，斯塔尔表示，由于资源有限且缺乏资金，该局已暂停为国会议员提供护送服务。
“我们主动采取措施，暂停了所有国会议员的护送服务，因为从停摆一开始我们就觉得，此时不应把资源用于为议员提供安全检查或加快安检流程。”斯塔尔对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“我们的重点是服务广大美国民众，这是我们每天都将继续专注的事情。”
上周末，唐纳德·特朗普总统部署美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工到机场，以支持人员减少的TSA队伍。此后，全国多个机场都能看到ICE特工的身影。
当被问及一旦支出法案通过，ICE特工将在机场停留多久时，斯塔尔表示，这些特工缓解了紧张局势和挑战，但其在机场的任期取决于TSA能否尽快恢复正常运作。
“希望我们不需要他们太久。”斯塔尔解释道，“但无论如何，他们提供了极大的帮助，我们非常感谢总统和ICE的支持。”
“这确实凸显了我们尽快恢复正常秩序的重要性，即参议院民主党人必须为国土安全部、为TSA提供资金，这样我们才能恢复正常秩序。”斯塔尔补充道。
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普雷斯顿·米泽尔（Preston Mizell）是福克斯新闻数字频道的记者，负责报道突发新闻。
FIRST ON FOX: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) leadership said airports and the agency will suffer from “longstanding” negative impacts as a result of the current partial government shutdown, even after a spending bill is passed.
TSA Deputy Administrator Adam Stahl sat down with Fox News Digital to detail how the agency will recover from what has been weeks of forgone pay for TSA officers, leading to what TSA says are the highest security wait times in the history of the agency.
“I can tell you right now that the reverberations that will be felt from this will be longstanding. They will continue for days after we get a re-appropriation and funding, particularly for the department for TSA,” Stahl told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. “We are already taking proactive measures to make sure that we’re going to get our people paid as quickly as possible.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains unfunded after more than 40 days, leaving TSA screeners and agents missing a full month’s pay. Call-outs have increased to dramatic levels, and DHS says more than 480 people have outright quit the TSA workforce.
Even after Congress funds the agency, Stahl says it is “going to take time to pay” agents who have been working without pay.
“There are systems in place, financial systems that are outside of a department that we rely on to again, dispense and disperse funds, salaries to our folks, but it will take some time,” Stahl explained. “But we’re working as quickly as possible with our partners to make sure once we get that money, we’ll hit the ground running and get that into our people’s pockets as quickly as possible.”
TSA’s deputy administrator also expressed concerns about the workforce’s return to airports following a potential funding package, noting the World Cup taking place in the U.S. this year will create an additional strain on air travel security.
“Last time we saw an increase in 25% of attrition immediately following the first shutdown previously in this fiscal year,” Stahl told Fox News Digital. “We’re concerned, and we have the World Cup coming up as well with an expected six to ten million travelers on top of a busy summer travel season, so we could really be in a difficult position for the long term.”
“It’s going to take time to readjust to get our folks paid,” Stahl added.
On Wednesday evening, a procedural vote to fund DHS failed, tacking on the previous five times the spending bill had been voted down.
The bill can only pass with a 60-vote threshold required to break the filibuster. Several Senate Democrats have crossed party lines to support funding the department, but votes have still remained shy of 60.
Senate Democrats have insisted that revisions to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, like the requirement of judicial warrants and the removal of face coverings for agents, be included in the spending bill.
Senate Republicans have said that if Senate Democrats want reforms, then they must also be willing to fund ICE. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Democrats are “going in circles” while TSA, FEMA and other DHS employees continue to work without pay.
“They know better,” Thune told reporters after Wednesday evening’s vote. “They’re asking for things that have already been turned down. So it just seems like they’re going in circles.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., took to the Senate Floor on Wednesday to punch back at the GOP’s stance.
“Over the weekend, Democrats had constructive conversations in person with our Republican colleagues,” Schumer said. “They, the Republican colleagues, conceded that some of the reforms, verbally, that we have been looking for, they said these make sense.”
As the congressional gridlock continues, Stahl said the agency has suspended escort services for members of Congress given their limited resources without funding.
“We proactively took the step of suspending all members of Congress escort services as just purely when this started to happen, because we fundamentally feel like we should not be expending resources to provide a security screening, expedite security screening to our members of Congress at this time,” Stahl told Fox News Digital. “Our focus is on serving the masses of American people and that’s what we’re going to continue to focus on every single day.”
Last weekend, President Donald Trump deployed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to airports to provide support to the weakened workforce. Agents have been seen at a number of airports across the country since the deployment.
When asked how long ICE agents would remain at airports following the passage of a spending bill, Stahl said the agents have alleviated tensions and challenges, though their tenure at airports depends on how quickly normal TSA operations can resume.
“Hopefully, we won’t need them much longer,” Stahl explained. “But again, they’ve been incredibly helpful, and we really appreciate the support from the president and from ICE.”
“It really necessitates and underscores the importance for us to get back in normal order, for the Senate Democrats to fund the Department, [to] fund TSA, so we can get back to normal order,” Stahl added.
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