Trump Signs Memo to Pay All DHS Employees During Shutdown

President Donald Trump on April 3 signed a memorandum directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay its employees all owed compensation and benefits accrued during a nearly seven-week-long partial government shutdown. Congress is in a stalemate in funding the agency, leaving tens of thousands of federal workers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies without pay for nearly two months. It’s become the longest DHS shutdown in U.S. history. Trump blamed Democrats for the lapse in funding in the title of his memorandum: “Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused Shutdown.”...