Homeland Security Secretary Warns DHS Running Out of Money to Pay Airport Workers

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding to pay federal airport security officers in the coming weeks if no congressional deal is made, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday. President Donald Trump in late March told DHS to use its emergency funds to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers who had gone without paychecks ​for several weeks due to a partial shutdown of the department, causing airport disruptions across the country. Mullin said in a “Fox and Friends” interview on Tuesday that funding to pay those workers would lapse in early May. “That money is dried up if I continue down this path the first ​week of May, because my payroll at DHS is just over $1.6 billion every two weeks,” ​Mullin told the news outlet....