Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is calling back tens of thousands of employees from a two-month furlough as the Trump administration processes backpay for federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown.
The backpay is coming out of the tax-and-spending law Republicans muscled through last year, which provided tens of billions of dollars to the department over the course of Trump’s second term.
“Secretary Mullin will be utilizing available funding to recall the entire DHS workforce to get our patriotic employees back to work,” a spokesperson said.
President Donald Trump ordered Mullin to pay workers at DHS, whose base funding ...