Significant Conclusion to the Lengthy US Shutdown — DHS Reopens - video Dailymotion

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Legislators have passed a measure to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, bringing an end to the longest partial government shutdown in the history of the United States. For more than six weeks, DHS personnel were barred from working, resulting in TSA wait times at major airports exceeding six hours and tens of thousands of workers being unpaid. Additionally, the inspector general highlighted a major cybersecurity issue with DHS smartphones during this shutdown. This development has implications for travelers, border security, and the future of national security in the US.

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00:00Congress just voted to reopen the Department of Homeland Security,

00:03ending the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.

00:06The shutdown locked DHS staff out of work for over six weeks,

00:11halting border operations, TSA staffing, and immigration processing.

00:15At the height of the shutdown, TSA wait times at major airports,

00:19including Houston and Atlanta, exceeded six hours.

00:22Tens of thousands of DHS employees worked without pay throughout the closure.

00:26The inspector general also released a damning report

00:30finding that DHS smartphones used by intelligence officers

00:34were not properly secured during the shutdown, raising the risk of cyberattacks.

00:39The deal includes back pay for affected workers

00:42and emergency funding through the end of the fiscal year.

00:45For American travelers, expect TSA staffing to ramp back up over the next two weeks.

00:51For border operations, the backlog of immigration cases will take months to clear.

00:56Lawmakers from both parties are calling this shutdown a national security failure

01:00that must never happen again.

01:03The U.S. just dodged a serious bullet, but the damage is still being counted.

Significant Conclusion to the Lengthy US Shutdown — DHS Reopens

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