Food Bank Steps in as DHS Shutdown Disrupts Paychecks for some Hampton Roads Employees

Travel industry pushes Congress to end DHS shutdown and pay federal security workers

With the busy spring break travel season looming, travel and aviation industry leaders urged Congress to end the stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security before federal workers at airports miss a full paycheck.“They’re showing up. They’re doing their job, and they’re not getting paid,” said Geoff Freeman, the CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, during a press conference Thursday. “It’s not just unfair. It’s reckless. You ca…

Food bank steps in as DHS shutdown disrupts paychecks for some Hampton Roads employees

The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore responds to rising need as the DHS shutdown disrupts pay for Coast Guard and TSA workers.

MBS International Airport says business as usual for now amid government shutdown

TSA staffers are now working without pay.

TSA workers brace for missed paychecks as shutdown and war tensions mount

Amid a U.S. war with Iran and the risk of terrorist attacks, some lawmakers say it's a bad time for TSA workers to have their paychecks stalled by a shutdown.

DEMOCRATS’ DHS SHUTDOWN: BY THE NUMBERS - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

WASHINGTON — Thanks to the ongoing Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA operations are disrupted following a historic season of winter storms on the East Coast, TSA agents are working another week without pay, the Secret Service is going unfunded while another armed attempt was made recently on President Trump’s life, and our nation witnessed an act of terrorism in Texas over the weekend. Given the heightened threat env…