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Saturday, 21 March 2026

Elon Musk Offers to Personally Pay TSA Workers’ Salaries as Partial DHS Shutdown Leaves Them Unpaid for Over a Month

 

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has offered to cover the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel during the ongoing partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The shutdown, which began in February, stems from the Democrats forcing a funding standoff in Congress over the DHS budget.

Democrats have pushed to separate TSA funding from broader DHS operations, including immigration enforcement.

As a result, approximately 50,000 essential TSA officers, who are required to continue working, have gone without pay for more than a month.

This is the third time in less than six months that TSA workers have faced missed paychecks due to funding lapses.

Many officers have reported severe financial strain, including reliance on food pantries, community donations, sleeping in cars, and taking on second jobs.

Airports nationwide have seen staffing shortages, with hundreds of TSA officers quitting, at least 366 confirmed by DHS, and others calling in sick.

This has led to massive security lines during peak spring break travel, with some airports warning that entire checkpoints or operations could shut down.

On Saturday, Musk offered to help.

“I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,” Musk wrote in a post on his platform X.

The offer has drawn praise from Democrat Sen. John Fetterman, who called it “incredibly generous” and noted that TSA agents are relying on food pantries and donations to get by.

Fetterman remains the only Democrat to have voted with Republicans to fully fund DHS.

There has been no immediate official response from the TSA, DHS, or Congress on whether Musk’s offer could be accepted or implemented.

Back pay for federal workers is typically provided once funding is restored.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin Claims Founding Fathers Were ‘Undocumented Immigrants’ (VIDEO)

 

Congressman Raskin speaking during a congressional hearing, seated at a table with water bottles and colleagues in the background.
New York Congressman Jamie Raskin made the remarks during a Congressional subcommittee meeting on Thursday.

Far-left Rep. Jamie Raskin has suggested that the U.S. Founding Fathers were “undocumented immigrants.”

Speaking during a hearing for the Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government, Raskin argued that both Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson came to the U.S. without the relevant paperwork.

Raskin remarked:

I want to start by invoking Tom Paine, who was an undocumented immigrant who came to this land in 1774, two years before the revolution and wrote Common Sense, the pamphlet that ignited the American Revolution. And he said that this land, if it lives up to its ideals and its promise, would become an “asylum to humanity,” he said.

Not an insane asylum, but a place of refuge for people seeking freedom from religious and political, intellectual and economic persecution from all over the world.

Also in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson, who was a descendant of a long line of undocumented immigrants both on his mother’s side and his father’s side to the country, said that education would be central to democratic self-government and to the protection of liberty in our country. He said that a nation cannot be both ignorant and free. He said it was an impossibility.

His comments were then interrupted by the head of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan.

“I was just curious, Chairman, the ranking member said, I think his opening sentence was Thomas Paine was an illegal immigrant,” he remarked.

”My understanding was Mr. Paine was born in the UK, came to America, then a British colony, in 1774. So I was just struggling with how he was…”

“I didn’t say he was an illegal immigrant,” Raskin then interjected.

”I said he was an undocumented immigrant, just like Thomas Jefferson’s family was. Most of our ancestors did not arrive here with documents.”

Watch the clip below:

Last April, Raskin promised retaliation against those responsible for “unleashing fascism” on America when Democrats return to power.

“When we come back to power — and we will — are not going to look kindly upon people who facilitated authoritarianism in our country,” he declared at the time.

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Iranians in Canada Set Up Memorial at US Embassy – Thank Americans who Sacrificed Their Lives in Fight Against Criminal Regime

 

A woman places roses at a memorial site featuring American and Mexican flags, with a backdrop of a seal and protest signs.
Iranians thank US soldiers who were killed by the Iranian regime during the War on Iran. This took place in Canada on Saturday.

Iranian people in Toronto, Canada thanked the Americans who gave their live so Iran could be free from one of the most brutal regimes in world history.

Iranians dropped off roses outside the US Embassy in Canada on Saturday in a gesture of gratitude to America and US soldiers stationed in the Middle East.

Ahmed Batebi wrote: “The gratitude of the Iranian people to the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the criminal ayatollahs and for the freedom of the Iranian nation.”

 

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Here is more on Iranian activist Ahmed Batebi – many of you may have noticed his photo is posted at the top of the TGP home page.

Iranian student activist and dissident Ahmad Betebi was sentenced to death and severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran. He escaped safely to the United States in late June.

During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through a free Iraq to Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC.

Ahmad Batebi arrived in the United States after years of torture and imprisonment. Broke, weak and afraid, Batebi described his flight from Iran through a free Iraq to The New York Times today. He tells of the Iranian agents who followed his escape from Iran and he talks about the day in 1999 that made him famous. It is an unimaginable story of heartache and courage.
Here, Batebi talks about the brutality of the regime:

Mr. Batebi described 17 months in solitary confinement, including repeated torture by interrogators trying to force him to say on television that the famous T-shirt was stained with paint or animal blood.

His jailers thrashed him with a metal cable, beat his testicles and kicked in his teeth, he said. They held his face down in a pool of excrement. They tied his arms behind his back and hung him from the ceiling. At other times, strapping him to a chair, they kept him awake night after night, cutting him and rubbing salt into the wounds.

To stave off madness, he said, he fought back. “If the interrogator cursed me, I would curse him back,” he said. “If the interrogator hit me, I’d try to hit him back.”

What an incredible story.

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