Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to pay sixty-one thousand security employees following a six-week government shutdown.The funding crisis led to airport security wait times exceeding four hours at major hubs after the House of Representatives rejected a budget bill.Many Transportation Security Administration agents faced evictions and food insecurity while working without receiving their regular salaries in the USA.Officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were deployed to manage terminals as nearly five hundred staff members resigned during the crisis.