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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Nobelle Borines

Trump Said 'No' to Deal That Could Have Paid TSA Agents by End of Week, Republican Senator Says

John Kennedy has revealed that Donald Trump rejected a deal that could have quickly brought relief to thousands of unpaid US airport workers.

The Republican senator says the president personally shut down a bipartisan compromise that would have finally satisfied the many Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees who have been working tirelessly at the nation's airports without receiving a pay cheque. If the deal had been approved, Kennedy insists, the workers would have been 'paid by the end of the week'.

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