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Workers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityTSA workers would be paid through the shutdown, including back pay to when it began in February.
Workers & Jobs
Funding for the agency ran out on February 14, 2026, and staff kept working without pay. The bill would take money from the Treasury. It would cover their normal checks, benefits, and shift extras until funding returns.
The bill would count as taking effect on February 13, 2026, the day before the funding gap started. So paychecks already missed would be made up, not just future ones.
Transparency & Accountability
The pay money stops once Congress passes a spending bill for TSA, even one that leaves this pay out. It ends on September 30, 2026 at the latest, so Congress would have to act again to extend it.
More about this bill
If you work for the TSA, you would be paid through the shutdown. Money for the airport screening agency ran out on February 14, 2026. Staff were still expected to show up and work without pay. The bill would cover normal pay, benefits, and shift extras for the whole gap. It names no dollar cap. It provides whatever is needed. The bill would count as starting on February 13, 2026, so missed pay would be covered too. The money would stop as soon as Congress acts on TSA funding. It would end on September 30, 2026 at the latest. The cost would later be charged back to the agency's regular budget. If you do not work there, you would see no direct change.
Congressional Summary
This bill provides continuing appropriations to provide pay and benefits to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees during the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown that began on February 14, 2026. (A partial government shutdown is currently in effect for TSA and other DHS agencies because the FY2026 DHS appropriations bill has not been enacted and continuing appropriations for DHS are not in effect.)Specifically, the bill provides FY2026 continuing appropriations to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable on a regular basis to TSA employees during the period in which interim or full-year FY2026 appropriations are not in effect.The bill provides the continuing appropriations until the earlier of (1) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations legislation, or (2) September 30, 2026. The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on February 13, 2026.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 362.
- Action Date
- 2026-03-18
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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