We’ll see if it really happens. And how fast it happens.

At week’s end, lawmakers were still at an impasse over funding for the Department of Homeland Security – which includes the budget for the Transportation Security Administration.

But on Thursday, President Trump said he would sign an emergency order to get paychecks to TSA employees who have been working without pay at U.S. airports for weeks.

Early Friday morning, the Senate voted to fund the DHS, but not its immigration enforcement and deportation operations,

The House may take up the measure later today (Friday).

In response to Thursdays’ news of possible funding for TSA workers, Everett Kelley, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said in part:

“The 47,000 TSA officers represented by AFGE will finally be paid, and we are grateful that action was taken to make that happen. We don’t yet know what this means for thousands of other DHS employees at FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, among others.”

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