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The bill keeps TSA employees paid and airport security functioning during an appropriations lapse, but does so at the cost of short-term taxpayer outlays, potential retroactive financial liabilities, and added administrative/accounting burdens for governments, businesses, and workers.
TSA workforce and air travelers: TSA employees will continue receiving pay and benefits beginning Feb 14, 2026, preventing pay interruptions and helping keep airport screening and security operations running during a lapse in appropriations.
Federal finances and taxpayers: The bill requires chargebacks to the eventual regular appropriation and includes safeguards to avoid duplicate payments, which preserves more accurate accounting and returns interim costs to the intended funding source.
Taxpayers and budget holders: Interim Treasury payments increase short-term federal outlays and taxpayers may face retroactive liabilities (fees, penalties, or tax changes effective Feb 13, 2026), producing direct financial exposure and uncertainty.
Federal, state, and local administrators: Retroactive application and chargeback requirements will create administrative and accounting burdens—adjusting records, reconciling prior-period transactions, and managing complex recoveries or reimbursements.
TSA employees: Workers paid from interim Treasury funds could later face payroll corrections or other administrative adjustments if chargebacks require retroactive accounting changes.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Allows Treasury to provide temporary FY2026 funds to pay TSA employees' wages and benefits during a lapse, with required chargebacks once regular appropriations are enacted.
Introduced March 17, 2026 by Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen · Last progress March 17, 2026
Provides temporary Treasury funding to keep Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees paid and receiving benefits for the FY2026 period beginning in mid-February 2026 if regular FY2026 appropriations are not yet in effect. Payments must not duplicate other pay, must be charged back to the proper appropriation once regular appropriations are enacted, and follow the same requirements and limits that applied under the prior full-year continuing appropriations law. The authority is retroactive to February 13, 2026 and funds remain available only until a later appropriation, enactment of a law without funding for the same purpose, or September 30, 2026.