How Houston’s airports became the face of TSA funding woes

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  Good morning.

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  The Senate reached a deal to fund DHS after President Trump announced a separate plan for TSA workers.

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  The Associated Press talks to us from Texas and explains what it's like at one of the country's busiest airports.

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  Houston specifically has become sort of the symbol of the problems with security and travel woes around the country.

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  The White House says progress is being made in Iran, but economic indicators are going the other way.

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  And to mark the nation's birthday, the world's largest steam train is crossing the US.

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  It's Friday, March 27th.

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  I'm Cecilia Lay.

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  And I'm Gideon Resnick.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  In the early hours of Friday morning, the Senate agreed to fund most of DHS without immigration enforcement,

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  after a weeks-long partial shutdown that had become the longest in history.

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  The bill must still be passed by the House, but the expectation is that that will happen later Friday.

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  Pressure had been building as lines spiraled at airport terminals across the country.

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  And TSA officers haven't been paid in over five weeks.

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  At a cabinet meeting yesterday, President Trump pledged to act if no deal was reached.

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  And we're not going to let the Democrats get away with this stuff and people are wise to them.

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  So they need to end the shutdown immediately or we'll have to take some very drastic measures.

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  Before the Senate passed the funding bill, President Trump said that he would sign an executive order

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  to pay TSA workers immediately.

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