The number of TSA agents who have called out of work has fallen more than 43% since President Donald Trump ordered that staffers be paid amid the ongoing shutdown, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told TIME.
On March 27, Trump issued a presidential memorandum, instructing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to pay TSA agents using existing funds “that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations.” Last week, TSA officers began receiving their retroactive paychecks.
On March 27—the day that the highest number of agents called out of work since the DHS shutdown began on Feb. 14—more than 12% of TSA officers called out of work. But on Sunday, the call-out rate for TSA officers nationwide was down to just under 8%, meaning that about 2,045 agents called out of work that day, according to DHS.
Airports like Charlotte Douglas International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport, meanwhile, saw about 12% and 14%, respectively, of TSA officers calling out of work on Sunday.
Some airports, though, were reporting longer waits than that—John F. Kennedy International Airport, for instance, was reporting wait times of roughly 30 minutes at four of its terminals on late Monday afternoon. Still, that is a notable drop from the hour or longer wait times people traveling through that airport were reporting a couple weeks ago.
It is unclear how much longer the DHS shutdown will stretch on for. While Senate and House Republicans said last week that they had agreed on a tentative deal to fund most of DHS—except for immigration enforcement agencies—through September, the House took no action on the bill on Thursday. It now seems that a deal to reopen the department might not be approved at least until the House returns from its two-week recess next week.
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