Trump signs executive order making sure TSA workers are paid during DHS shutdown

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal officials to ensure Transportation Security Administration employees receive pay during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

Calling the situation an “emergency,” Trump warned that mounting disruptions at airports have pushed the system to a breaking point.

“As the Democrat-caused shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues well into its sixth week, America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump wrote. “This is an unprecedented emergency situation.”

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More than 60,000 TSA employees have gone without pay, fueling absenteeism and forcing some officers to quit. Nearly 500 TSA workers have already left their jobs, while thousands more have called out sick, according to the order.

“As a result, security wait times at some airports have reached untenable lengths of three or more hours,” Trump said.

He warned the combination of longer lines and declining morale is “unacceptably” heightening security risks and disrupting travel nationwide.

Trump said he is instructing DHS, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, to tap available funds connected to TSA operations to cover employee pay and benefits.

"President Trump has made the decision that echoes what TSA’s frontline employees and the millions of Americans enduring terrible wait times at our airports are saying: the Democrat DHS shutdown has become an emergency," DHS wrote.

‘No Kings’ calls itself leaderless but its own internal documents tell a very different story

"We’re going to have over 3,500 events across the country," Parker said. "I think it’s important to be out in the streets at this moment in time to save our country. The events will be overwhelmingly peaceful and there are going to be millions of Americans from different affiliations, different ages and different ethnic backgrounds coming together to be in community."

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Despite Parker’s framing of a decentralized movement, No Kings provides a highly-structured document for organizers titled "March 28 Toolkit," instructing viewers on how to recruit their own speakers, delegate roles, register their event and use No Kings branded media materials. It also lays out best practices for logistics as well as how to avoid permitting and insurance requirements for event-holders.

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Iran’s Terrorist IRGC Lowers Age to Join Repressive Forces to 12 amid War

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, announced this week the launch of a campaign to recruit boys as young as 12 to join their forces manning checkpoints and patrols repressing Iranian citizens.

The “For Iran” campaign is apparently meant to help with the ongoing repression of dissident Iranians, as well as train Iranians to prepare for any potential American or Israeli ground invasion. While evidence has existed for years that Iran recruits boys into security roles, contrary to international law against the use of child soldiers, this new effort appears to be an escalation intended to expand Tehran’s control over its citizenry.

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IRGC official Rahim Nadali reportedly told state media on Thursday that the IRGC is launching the “For Iran” campaign to expand recruitment to the terrorist organization and indoctrinate new members into fighting “the global bully,” referring to the United States.

“At the Basij checkpoints and patrols that you see across the cities, we had a very high number of volunteers among young people and teenagers who wanted to participate,” he explained, according to a translation by the Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Considering the ages of those requesting to join, we have now lowered the minimum age to 12 years old, because children aged 12-13 want to be involved.”

He reportedly described the jobs open to the younger recruits as “operational patrols” meant to intimidate Iranians and “collecting security data.”

JD Vance Responds To Joe Rogan Calling MAGA A Movement Full Of ‘Dorks’

Vice President JD Vance clapped back at popular podcast host Joe Rogan on Friday after Rogan blasted President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan and movement.

During an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” that dropped earlier this week, Rogan said the “Make America Great Again” phrase “sucks,” adding that MAGA has become “a movement of a bunch of dorks.”

“First of all, America is great,” Rogan said during an interview with comedian Dave Smith. “Make America greater? I’m down. But ‘Make America Great Again’ and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of f*cking dorks? Because a lot of them are dorks. A lot of them are these really weird, f*cking uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something that they cling to.”

Rogan added that “there’s a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots and they’re all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? F*ck that!”

Vance, who has been friendly with Rogan and appeared on Rogan’s podcast in October 2024, responded to the comedian’s comments during an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson on Friday.

“I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far-Left,” Vance said. “But everybody’s got some dorks. We love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We love anybody who wants to save our country.”

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Vice President JD Vance PUNCHES BACK at Joe Rogan for Calling MAGA ‘Dorks’

“Far fewer dorks than the far-left. But we love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We just want to save the country”

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Both Rogan and Smith backed Trump and Vance in the 2024 election, but they have become increasingly critical of the president over his handling of foreign policy and the Epstein files. Smith, a regular guest on Rogan’s show, aligns with many of the anti-Israel views spouted by commentators and politicians on the far-Left.

Both Rogan and Smith suggested that Trump has betrayed his base over the Iran war, but polling consistently shows that Trump’s supporters back his actions in Iran.

Vance Drops ‘Immigration Fraud’ Bombshell On ‘Squad’ Member

Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that Somali-born Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America” and added that the Trump administration is seeking to “go after her.”

Vance, who is leading President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud crackdown throughout the United States, was asked about fraud allegations against Omar by conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

“We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance said. “And I talked to [Trump adviser] Stephen Miller about this recently, we’re trying to look at what the remedies are.”

“What are the legal remedies now that we know she’s committed immigration fraud? How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?” Vance added.