{"id":68906,"date":"2026-03-13T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/us-airports-ask-for-donations-for-unpaid-tsa-staff-amid-partial-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:48:12","slug":"us-airports-ask-for-donations-for-unpaid-tsa-staff-amid-partial-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/us-airports-ask-for-donations-for-unpaid-tsa-staff-amid-partial-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US airports ask for donations for unpaid TSA staff amid partial government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSA employees have been working in US airports without pay since the partial shutdown began in February<\/p>\n<p>A rising number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> airports are asking for donations to support employees affected by the partial government shutdown with airport security officials missing their first full paychecks Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been working in airports around the US without pay since a shutdown began in February after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a funding agreement. Democrats have since refused to support a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA\u2019s parent agency, without first receiving guaranteed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/usimmigration\">immigration enforcement<\/a> reforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/13\/tsa-workers-pay-shutdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA employees have been working in US airports without pay since the partial shutdown began in February A rising number of US airports are asking for donations to support employees affected by the partial government shutdown with airport security officials missing their first full paychecks Friday. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees have been working in &#8230; <a title=\"US airports ask for donations for unpaid TSA staff amid partial government shutdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/us-airports-ask-for-donations-for-unpaid-tsa-staff-amid-partial-government-shutdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US airports ask for donations for unpaid TSA staff amid partial government shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}