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Trump news at a glance: president tries to stop chaos at airports

Travelers line up at a TSA checkpoint at an airport in Houston, Texas.
Travelers line up at a TSA checkpoint at an airport in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Lekan Oyekanmi/AP

Donald Trump said on Thursday he will take executive action to pay 50,000 airport security workers as a deal stalled in Congress to address staff shortages that have snarled travel around the country.

The US president said he was instructing the Homeland Security Department “to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it!”

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