March 21, 2026
Musk offers to pay TSA salaries as DHS shutdown stretches into fifth week
Elon Musk on Saturday offered to personally cover the paychecks of Transportation Security Administration officers as a partial government shutdown enters its fifth week, leaving tens of thousands of airport security workers without pay and travelers facing hours-long checkpoint lines.
TL;DR
- Elon Musk offered to personally pay TSA officers' salaries.
- The US government shutdown has reached its fifth week.
- Tens of thousands of TSA officers are currently not being paid.
- Travelers are experiencing extended wait times at airport checkpoints due to the shutdown.
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