The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Feb. 17, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a memorandum directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay its employees all owed compensation and benefits accrued during a nearly seven-week-long partial government shutdown.
Congress is in a stalemate in funding the agency, leaving tens of thousands of federal workers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies without pay for nearly two months.
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