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President Trump isn’t waiting for Chuck Schumer to stop playing games with America’s airports. With the Department of Homeland Security shuttered for 41 days and security lines stretching for hours, Trump announced he’ll sign an executive order directing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA agents immediately, as he posted on Truth Social. “I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!”
This is what leadership looks like. While Democrats hold TSA funding hostage to protect illegal immigrants, as per GOP sources who spoke to The Hill, Trump is finding ways to get hardworking Americans their paychecks, as he emphasized in his Truth Social posts. The contrast couldn’t be clearer — one side fighting for citizens, the other fighting for criminal aliens who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
As Trump has stated in his Truth Social post, the partial DHS shutdown has created chaos at airports across the country, with hour-long waits at security checkpoints, missed flights, frustrated travelers, and economic damage rippling through the airline industry. And why? Because Democrats refuse to pass funding that doesn’t include their pet projects and sanctuary city protections, according to GOP sources who spoke to The Hill. Trump laid it out plainly in his Truth Social post: “They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person.”
The executive order route isn’t simple, as Trump acknowledged in his post, but when the legislative branch refuses to do its job, the executive has to act. The Senate was scheduled to vote Thursday on a broader DHS funding bill, but passage is uncertain, with GOP sources telling The Hill they expect the White House to take action if Democrats refuse to accept concessions ensuring that appropriated money doesn’t go toward ICE removal operations. Democrats are demanding that funding for airport security be tied to handcuffing immigration enforcement, which puts American travelers at risk.
Trump’s executive order breaks that hostage situation by getting TSA agents paid and restoring functionality to our airports without giving an inch on enforcing immigration laws. The left will scream about “unilateral action” and “executive overreach,” but where was this concern when Biden was rewriting immigration policy with a pen? Trump thanked TSA agents and ICE officers for “the incredible help they have given us at the Airports,” as he said in his statement — these are Americans doing difficult jobs under impossible circumstances, and this president has their back.
Will the executive order face legal challenges? Probably. But Trump is showing that he’ll fight for the American people even when the system is rigged against him.
Providence watches over the bold.
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