House Republicans shoot down bill that would pay federal airport workers
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White House memo says Trump has instructed DHS to pay federal airport workers as long lines snarl travel.
Republican leaders in the United States House of Representatives have shot down a bill passed by the Senate that would have resumed funding for federal agencies tasked with airport screenings, continuing a standoff that has resulted in chaos at airports as workers go without pay.
In the early hours of Friday morning, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would finance most of agencies under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the US Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
But that bill withheld funding from two branches related to President Donald Trump’s hardline crackdown on immigration: border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By Friday afternoon, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed he would not bring the Senate-passed bill to the floor for a vote and slammed the legislation as a “joke”.
“We’re going to do something different,” Johnson said, suggesting that the House could advance its own bill fully funding all DHS agencies for two months.
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