Senator Ben Ray Luján plans to introduce legislation guaranteeing pay and a $10,000 bonus for TSA personnel amidst the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The bill aims to ensure TSA staff receive a base pay of $40,000 and continued compensation despite the funding lapse, while Democrats and Republicans clash over DHS funding and immigration policy.
Sen. Ben Ray Luján , D-N.M. , plans to introduce a bill to provide pay and a bonus to Transportation Security Administration personnel as the Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues, according to a fact sheet shared with NBC News.
The fact sheet says that the bill would set the base pay rate for TSA staff at $40,000 and ensure that they continue to receive pay despite what has become a record-long shutdown. It would also provide a $10,000 bonus to TSA personnel who have worked during the lapse in DHS funding. About six weeks after the shutdown began, Trump directed DHS to pay TSA workers, and shortly after told the department to pay all of its employees.
Democratic lawmakers have offered up similar bills to try to fund TSA and other individual agencies during the shutdown amid the impasse with the Republican majority over the Democrats' proposed overhaul of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. , also introduced a bill in March to provide a bonus to TSA officers when the shutdown ends.
'Every day, TSA agents show up to work to protect travelers and make our country safer,' Luján said in a statement shared in the fact sheet. 'These hardworking men and women deserve to be properly compensated and shouldn’t miss paychecks in a political shutdown that Republicans created. ' Republicans, meanwhile, have attempted to fund DHS without ICE and Border Patrol funding or the entire department.
The Senate GOP advanced a budget resolution early this morning that would pave the way to funding the two immigration-related agencies and then separately fund the rest of DHS without Democratic support.
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