{"id":29488,"date":"2026-03-20T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29488"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:10:26","slug":"sen-ossoff-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-tsa-funding-6-times","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-blasts-senate-republicans-for-blocking-tsa-funding-6-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Blasts Senate Republicans for Blocking TSA Funding 6 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have tried to fund TSA six times in two weeks. Republican obstruction is denying TSA<a>workers<\/a>&nbsp;pay and creating havoc at airports. While negotiations continue over ICE, there is no reason TSA should be held hostage. Republicans must stop blocking TSA funding immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Please find background below&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-block-bills-to-fund-tsa-other-parts-of-dhs-for-the-9th-time\"><strong>from the Senate Appropriations Committee<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>&nbsp;on the 6 times Senate Republicans have blocked funding for TSA:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thursday, March<\/strong><strong>\u00a05<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-block-bill-to-pay-tsa-agents-fund-fema-and-cyber-defense-agency-as-they-drag-their-feet-on-common-sense-reforms-to-protect-americans-from-violence-at-the-hands-of-ice\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to fund FEMA, TSA, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, CISA, and other important DHS components.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Wednesday, March<\/strong><strong>\u00a011<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-again-block-bill-to-fund-tsa-fema-and-cyber-defense-agency\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to fund FEMA, TSA, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, CISA, and other important DHS components.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Friday, March<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>12<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/in-24-hours-senate-republicans-block-five-separate-bills-to-fund-tsa-fema-cisa-coast-guard-and-other-dhs-functions\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to pay TSA workers while broader negotiations continue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Wednesday, March 18<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-once-again-block-bill-to-pay-tsa-agents\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) to pay TSA workers while broader negotiations continue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thursday, March 19<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-block-bills-to-fund-tsa-other-parts-of-dhs-for-the-9th-time\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) to pay TSA workers while broader negotiations continue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thursday, March 19<\/strong>: Senate Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/minority\/senate-republicans-block-bills-to-fund-tsa-other-parts-of-dhs-for-the-9th-time\">blocked a bill<\/a>\u00a0offered by Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) to fund FEMA, TSA, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, CISA, and other important DHS components.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement. \u201cDemocrats have tried to fund TSA six times in two weeks. Republican obstruction is denying TSAworkers&nbsp;pay and creating havoc at airports. While negotiations continue over ICE, there is no reason TSA should be held hostage. Republicans must stop blocking TSA funding immediately.\u201d Please find [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29488","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29489,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29488\/revisions\/29489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}