Kristi Noem unveils $1B TSA modernization plan, awards $10K bonuses to workers who served during shutdown

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem connected Sunday announced a $1 cardinal nationwide upgrade to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) instrumentality and awarded $10,000 bonus payments to prime employees.

Speaking astatine Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport successful Minnesota, Noem praised TSA workers for their dedication during the caller 43-day national authorities shutdown, which ended earlier this month.

"What we saw during that clip play was remarkable," Noem said. "… We saw radical who recognized that their intent … was to service people, was to spell retired and proceed to amusement up for enactment — sometimes taking connected other shifts, taking attraction of different individuals, but inactive making definite that we were keeping radical harmless and keeping our information systems and standards high."

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Speaking astatine Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport successful Minnesota, Noem praised TSA workers for their dedication during the caller 43-day national authorities shutdown, which ended earlier this month. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Noem said the $10,000 bonuses were intended to reward employees who went supra and beyond during the shutdown.

"We person $10,000 bonus payments that we volition beryllium paying to each of the individuals down america — recognizing that they are examples," Noem said. "… We volition proceed to enactment to bid each azygous idiosyncratic nether the section to bash and to serve, specified arsenic they did during this past challenging and hard time."

The caput besides announced a $1 cardinal TSA modernization inaugural to fortify airdrome information and let TSA workers to bash their jobs "well, accurately, efficiently." 

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Travelers marque their mode done a TSA information checkpoint astatine Logan International Airport successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected Nov. 7, 2025.    (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

"We volition beryllium putting implicit $1 cardinal into caller scanning equipment, caller X-ray equipment, [Advanced Imaging Technology] equipment," she said. "… It's been implicit a decade, possibly 15 years, since the section has enactment this benignant of resources into caller technologies to support our proscription strategy secure, truthful that volition beryllium coming and being deployed implicit the adjacent galore months."

Noem archetypal announced the TSA concern a time earlier during remarks astatine Harry Reid International Airport successful Las Vegas, saying the funds would spell toward "new exertion and advancements successful information systems," according to the Washington Examiner.

On Thursday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford announced that hundreds of aerial postulation controllers and technicians who worked during the government shutdown would person bonus checks.

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks astatine a quality league astatine Harry Reid International Airport, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, successful Las Vegas.  (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)

The Department of Transportation (DOT) said successful a connection that 776 aerial postulation controllers and technicians would beryllium awarded $10,000 for their "patriotic work."

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"These patriotic men and women ne'er missed a bushed and kept the flying nationalist harmless passim the shutdown," Duffy said successful a statement. "Democrats whitethorn not attraction astir their fiscal well-being, but President Trump does."

DHS did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.