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DHS retains paying Coast Guard personnel regardless of partial authorities shutdown

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Last updated: March 18, 2026 9:58 am
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The Division of Homeland Safety is utilizing discretionary funding to proceed paying active-duty U.S. Coast Guard personnel in the course of the division’s ongoing shutdown, at the same time as civilian staff stay unpaid, in keeping with a number of U.S. officers and a division spokesperson.

“Navy members obtained their newest paycheck final week. USCG civilian workforce isn’t receiving paychecks,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement to CBS Information.

Pay for DHS’s greater than 250,000 staff has been up within the air since its funding lapsed in mid-February resulting from a breakdown in negotiations in Congress over immigration enforcement. Roughly 76,600 individuals work for the Coast Guard, together with roughly 41,200 active-duty service members, 6,400 reservists and 19,700 auxiliarists, alongside about 9,300 civilian staff.

For navy households, the uncertainty round pay has created monetary pressure. Christine O’Shields, a Coast Guard partner whose husband has served practically 21 years, stated current paychecks arrived with out warning after households initially anticipated to go unpaid. She described the arrival of final week’s paycheck as a “shock.”

“It’s this curler coaster of, are we going to receives a commission, and are we not going to receives a commission?” she stated. “We do not know, actually, until it hits our account if it will come or not.”

O’Shields stated the unpredictability has compelled households to delay main monetary choices and on a regular basis bills, together with journey, childcare and even meals out with their youngsters. As her household prepares for a possible transfer, she questioned how they may plan for a house buy with out dependable earnings documentation.

“How can we even understand how a lot of a home we will purchase if we won’t even present pay statements?” she stated.

As of this week, a U.S. official advised CBS Information roughly 300 U.S. Coast Guard personnel are stationed within the Center East, primarily in Bahrain and Oman, amid the continuing warfare with Iran.

The shutdown can be affecting different DHS parts, together with Transportation Safety Administration officers and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company staff, lots of whom are working with out pay or are furloughed. Giant numbers of TSA brokers have referred to as out of labor resulting from lacking paychecks, resulting in lengthy traces at some airport safety checkpoints.

TSA Deputy Administrator Adam Stahl advised CBS Information the company’s potential to help its workers via the shutdown is “very a lot constrained” by congressional appropriations, however “I can inform you emphatically that we’re doing completely every part we will.”

In distinction, immigration personnel at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Safety are largely persevering with operations with minimal disruption. These companies are flush with money because of the One Large Stunning Invoice Act, which congressional Republicans handed final summer season, allotting greater than $150 billion to each companies.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who’s departing her job on the finish of this month, advised lawmakers in early March that ICE and Secret Service brokers are nonetheless getting paid. 

The Trump administration has used discretionary funding to maintain paying some federal staff prior to now. Throughout a 43-day-long authorities shutdown final fall, members of the navy, FBI brokers and DHS regulation enforcement personnel continued to get paychecks.

O’Shields criticized lawmakers for permitting repeated shutdowns to disrupt navy households’ monetary stability.

“Cease utilizing us as pawns in your sport and end the sport,” she stated, urging People to contact their members of Congress to register their issues.

Kathy Roth Douquet, the CEO and founding father of navy family-focused nonprofit Blue Star Households, stated in an announcement: “Authorities shutdowns ripple far past coverage debates in Washington, they hit dwelling for our navy households. The uncertainty surrounding how lengthy that may final is taking a toll. Navy readiness begins at dwelling, and when households are anxious or financially stretched, it impacts our nationwide safety.”

Congress has but to go new funding to reopen DHS, as Democrats push for reforms to DHS’s immigration-focused companies in trade for his or her votes to fund the division. Lawmakers have held a number of votes in current weeks, together with on a Senate funding proposal that didn’t advance and competing Democratic-backed measures within the Home which have additionally been blocked, leaving the division with out a full-year appropriation.

In the meantime, GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, President Trump’s nominee to guide DHS, is scheduled to seem Wednesday for a public affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee, because the division he would oversee stays shut down with no clear timeline for reopening.

Negotiations are anticipated to proceed this week, however congressional leaders haven’t introduced a path ahead to resolve the standoff.

The U.S. Coast Guard referred CBS Information to DHS for remark.

Kris Van Cleave

contributed to this report.

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