Air Travel and Consumer Costs

President Trump has ordered ICE agents to 14 U.S. airports to help manage crowd control and passenger flow as a partial DHS shutdown has left TSA officers unpaid since mid‑February, triggering thousands of call‑outs, hundreds of resignations and multi‑hour security lines at hubs including Houston, Atlanta and New York. The deployment—ICE personnel who remain on pay under a separate appropriation—has intensified political fights as Trump pushes to tie DHS funding to his SAVE America Act, senators weigh a plan to restore TSA pay while excluding ICE, Democrats warn of public‑safety risks, and Sen. John Fetterman publicly broke with his party over the shutdown’s toll on TSA workers.