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While law enforcement officers, Coast Guard service members, and most recently, Transportation Security Administration employees have received pay during the shutdown, thousands of other DHS staff have gone unpaid for the last 54 days.

Those going unpaid to this point include all staff the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, about 4,000 employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Coast Guard civilians, thousands of administrative staff at Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other civilian employees across DHS.

However, Monday’s message from the management directive suggests that those DHS employees will not be paid under Trump’s directive past April 4. “Any additional compensation owed to you will be paid once DHS funding is restored,†the message states.

“We remain hopeful that Congress will fund the Department and allow us to reopen soon and get everyone back to work,†it continues. “For those who have continued working, with and without pay, your dedication to the department and the American people, ensuring we remain mission-ready, is truly remarkable.†

Under Trump’s order, DHS is using funding from last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pay department employees during the shutdown.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told CBS News this week that DHS can move the funding to pay furloughed and excepted employees due to a provision that gives the president “a little bit of flexibility … with the dollars that were set up to allow us to do stuff just like this.†

Mullin has also been calling on Congress to quickly pass funding to fully re-open the department.
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