Trump Says He'll Sign Order To Pay All Dhs Workers As Shutdown Drags On

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would soon motion an bid to salary each labor of nan Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for complete 40 days.

In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump said that employees' families person "suffered acold excessively long" and that "help is connected nan way."

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for comment, including astir nan root of nan funding.

Many group who activity for DHS were already being paid, including labor of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which received backing done Trump's alleged "big beautiful bill."

Amid agelong delays astatine nan nation’s airports, Trump besides signed an bid past week to salary TSA workers, who began receiving paychecks this week. That order, however, didn’t screen thousands of different basal labor who person been forced to study for work during nan shutdown without pay. The group includes civilian Coast Guard workers, Federal Emergency Management Agency workers and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employees.

Republican legislature leaders announced a two-track scheme Wednesday aimed astatine ending nan record-breaking shutdown. Without providing definitive details, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., suggested that nan House would return up nan Senate-passed measure that provides backing to each of DHS isolated from ICE and CBP. Thune took nan first procedural steps toward passing that measure connected Thursday.

Republicans will past separately usage nan "reconciliation process" to supply backing to those remaining 2 agencies, relying only connected GOP votes astatine immoderate constituent successful nan future. Democrats person mostly opposed providing much backing ICE and CBP without meaningful reforms.

In his station Thursday, Trump thanked nan GOP leaders and said that his statement is "UNIFIED" and "and moving guardant connected a scheme that will reload backing for our FANTASTIC Border Patrol and Immigration Enforcement Officers."