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March 27, 2026 / 3:42 PM EDT / CBS News

Hours-long security lines snarled airports across the U.S. on Friday as TSA officers missed another paycheck during the partial government shutdown, but travel experts say delays could ease within days once workers are paid again.

President Trump, who said he recognized the urgency of paying security personnel, on Thursday directed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA workers immediately.

On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to CBS News that, at the direction of Mr. Trump, “TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce.” The department added that TSA officers should begin receiving pay as early as Monday, March 30.

The president’s directive comes as Congress is still negotiating a deal on the department’s funding, with the Senate passing a measure that the House then rejected. But House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday the lower chamber would vote “as soon as possible” on its own plan, which could occur later in the day.

When money starts to flow into federal workers’ bank accounts again, security lines should improve relatively quickly, according to travel experts. Here’s how soon travel could ease.

When will airport chaos subside?

This is the second time in less than a year that TSA officers have been forced to work without pay because lawmakers have failed to fully fund the government, leading more workers to call out sick and resign. That has fueled widespread staff shortages and, in turn, long security lines for passengers.

TSA call-out rates on Thursday hit their highest level — nearly 12% — since the shutdown began. Additionally, more than 500 agents have quit as a result of the funding impasse, the department said.

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“After the last shutdown, as soon as money hit their accounts, worker sickouts dropped dramatically,” Clint Henderson, a travel expert at The Points Guy, told CBS News. It took between two days and two weeks after they received their paychecks for security screening line wait times to return to normal, Henderson noted.

“Once the money starts flowing again, it will be great for passengers,” Henderson said, advising that anyone with plans to travel should brace for ongoing frustrations at the nation’s airports until TSA agents receive their paychecks.

“Every day they go without being paid, it gets worse,” he said.

Longer-term impact

Working without pay also takes a serious toll on morale, Henderson noted, saying that the latest episode could hamper TSA’s ability to recruit and replace the hundreds of essential workers who have quit over the course of the latest government shutdown.

“The longer-term impacts are more complicated,” Henderson said. “They will have to hire and train more people, and morale is really bad, so it will be an ongoing issue.”

Edited by Aimee Picchi

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Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

March 27, 2026 5:15 PM UTC / Reuters

A John Deere tractor stands on display during the opening of the International Green Week agriculture fair in Berlin, Germany January 20, 2023. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump announced new measures on Friday to support U.S. farmers who are reeling from the administration’s trade policies and the Iran war and suggested farm equipment makers cut prices – a call that sent their shares lower.

“I want John Deere and Case and all of – they’re great companies, Caterpillar… I want these companies to give it to you in the form of lower tractor and equipment costs,” Trump told hundreds of farmers and ranchers gathered under drizzle at an event on the South Lawn of the White House.

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Deere & Co shares dropped 2% after the statement. Case IH manufacturer CNH Industrial NV fell 1% while Caterpillar Inc was down nearly 1.2% in late-session trading.

The three companies could not immediately be reached for comment.

Trump called for lower prices in an aside during a speech that otherwise focused on shoring up support among the Republican president’s loyal constituency of rural voters, who have backed Trump in all three of the last presidential races.

For the fourth straight year, U.S. crop producers are facing tight margins, high production costs and low commodity prices – and are struggling financially – despite near-record government payments.

The Trump administration is distributing $12 billion in aid to U.S. farmers – a move that farm trade groups and agricultural economists have said is helpful in the short-term but will not fully compensate farmers for financial losses that have topped $30 billion in recent years.

On Friday, Trump said he would seek even more such aid for farmers from Congress. More than 50 farm-interest groups, such as the American Farm Bureau Federation, are urging Congress to approve additional aid in a military funding package.

The event happened as the administration finalized new biofuel blending mandates for U.S. oil refiners, requiring them to mix more of the fuels made from corn and other agricultural products into the nation’s gasoline and diesel than initially proposed, in an apparent win for farmers.

Trump also said the U.S. Small Business Administration would open up new loan guarantees for farmers and food suppliers.

Farmers are entering the critical spring planting season under a cloud of uncertainty as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran disrupts global trade, causing fertilizer and diesel costs to spike.

The long-term U.S. trade relationship with China also remains unclear amid the ongoing trade war launched by Trump’s administration with the country, the world’s top soy importer.

Rural voters constitute a fifth of the U.S. electorate, and they favored Trump by a two-to-one margin over Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Gram Slattery, P.J. Huffstutter; Additional reporting by Bhargav Acharya, editing by Michelle Nichols and David Ljunggren

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Colombian mayor says body found in search for missing American Airlines flight attendant

March 27, 2026 / 3:38 PM EDT / CBS News

A body was found during a search for an American Airlines flight attendant who disappeared during a layover in Medellin, Colombia, the city’s mayor said Friday.

Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, 32, a U.S. citizen and North Texas resident, went missing Saturday evening after a night out with a fellow flight attendant. The two flight attendants visited a bar in Medellin’s El Poblado neighborhood, popular with international tourists, according to family and friends as well as Colombian officials.

Gutierrez Molina was set to work on a return flight from Medellín to Miami on Sunday. His longtime partner, Ernesto Carranza, told CBS News that he became worried when he wasn’t able to reach him on Sunday morning.

An undated photo of Eric Fernado Gutierrez Molina. Ernesto Carranza

Fico Gutierrez, the mayor of Medellin, said on Friday that a “lifeless body” was found between the municipalities of Jerico and Puente Iglesias during the search for Gutierrez Molina.

“There is a very high probability that it is this person,” he said in a social media post, adding that the body is being taken to the coroner’s office in Medellin for identification. “We express our solidarity to his family and friends. I have just personally delivered the painful news to his father, who is in Medellin.”

Fico Gutierrez said an investigation is underway. Additional details were not immediately available.

Carranza told CBS News that, after not being able to reach him, Gutierrez Molina’s phone appeared to be pinging to two locations in Medellin that were not near his hotel.

“Both locations were nowhere near where he was supposed to sleep for the night,” Carranza said.

Adding to the mystery was that the other flight attendant who went out with Gutierrez Molina on Saturday said she could not remember parts of the night, his friend, Sharom Gil, told CBS News.

In a statement provided to CBS News Texas, American Airlines said it was “actively engaged with local law enforcement officials in their investigation and doing all we can to support our team member’s family during this time.”

When reached by CBS News Texas, the U.S. Embassy in Colombia said it was “restricted from speaking about most individual cases due to federal privacy laws.”

The State Department also said in its own statement to CBS News Texas that it was “aware” of “reports” of Gutierrez Molina’s disappearance and was “closely tracking the situation.”

“The Trump Administration has no greater priority than the safety and security of Americans, and the State Department stands ready to provide all consular assistance to Americans in need abroad,” the State Department said Thursday.

José Diaz, Kathryn Krupnik and Cristian Benavides contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal officials to ensure Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees receive back pay during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown.

Trump described the situation as an “emergency,” citing severe strain on airport security operations.

“Accordingly, I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use funds that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown, consistent with applicable law, including 31 U.S.C. 1301(a),” Trump said.

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As Iran keeps Strait of Hormuz closed, it’s also threatening to target another vital Mideast shipping lane

March 27, 2026 / 1:07 PM EDT / CBS News

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway through which around 20% of the world’s crude oil supply flowed until the war — closed to any ships not explicitly granted permission by Tehran, warning of a severe response for any violators.

The global price of crude oil jumped over $110 a barrel on the news Friday. Before the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran one month ago, a barrel of benchmark Brent crude was trading at just over $70 a barrel.

The IRGC Navy appeared to make an example of three Chinese-owned commercial vessels this week that tried — but failed — to make it through the strait and out of the Persian Gulf.

“This morning, following the false statements of the corrupt U.S. president claiming that the Strait of Hormuz is open, three container ships of different nationalities moved toward the designated corridor for authorized vessel traffic, but were turned back after warnings from the IRGC Navy,” the Iranian military said in a social media post.

Early Friday morning, data from the MarineTraffic website showed that two ultra-large container ships owned by China’s biggest shipping company, COSCO, made a sharp U-turn after apparently trying to sail past Iran’s Larak Island. The two ships, CSCL Indian Ocean and CSCL Arctic Ocean, remained in the Persian Gulf later Friday.

A third ship, the Hong Kong-owned Lotus Rising, was forced to make a similar turnaround further out from the same island the previous day.

Locals take photos of two bulk carriers anchored in Muscat, Oman, March 25, 2026, as Tehran keeps international maritime traffic largely paralyzed in the Strait of Hormuz amid the war. Elke Scholiers/Getty Images

In its statement, the IRGC said, “the passage of any ship ‘to and from’ ports belonging to allies and supporters of the Zionist-American enemies, to any destination and via any corridor, is prohibited.”

Larak Island has been described as Tehran’s “toll booth” by analysts at maritime intelligence company Lloyd’s List. It’s just a few miles off Iran’s coast, and Tehran has been forcing ships to pay fees to pass safely — as much as $2 million for one vessel, according to Iranian state media.

Lloyd’s List says it tracked 33 transits via Larak Island in the second half of March, but no transits at all via the more common route further south through the strait. Put another way, while the Strait of Hormuz has been described as a chokepoint for oil coming out of the Persian Gulf, the route past Larak has become the specific chokepoint of Iran’s chokehold on the passage.

Adding further pressure, an Iranian military official was quoted recently by the Islamic Republic’s state-run media as saying another strait vital to world oil supplies could be targeted next. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is the southern gateway from the Red Sea into the Arabian Sea and all points beyond. An estimated 10% of the world’s oil supply flows through the passage, which is bordered by Djibouti to the south and Yemen to the north.

A map shows major routes for energy resources and other trade from the Middle East to Asia, including the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Strait of Hormuz. Getty/iStockphoto

Yemen is home to the Houthi rebel group, which is one of Iran’s most formidable proxy forces. While the Houthis have stayed out of the Iran war so far, its leaders have warned they could engage if Tehran asks them to.

The Houthis control a vast portion of Yemen, functioning as a shadow government, and their Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC), which manages navigation in the Red Sea, told Lloyds on Thursday that there was “no cause for concern” about the strait.

“As you can see, dozens of vessels, including oil tankers, transit the Bab el Mandeb strait every day. In this context, the Republic of Yemen remains committed to safeguarding navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait, as well as ensuring the free flow of trade,” the HOCC told Lloyds.

But the Houthis have attacked ships in the strait before, recently, in retaliation for Israel’s war in Gaza, and with Iran coming under more intense pressure from the U.S. and Israel, the threat is once again looming.

Photo provided by Yemen’s Al-Joumhouria TV of the U.K.-registered cargo ship Rubymar sinking after it was targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, near the entrance to the Bab el-Mandeb strait, March 3, 2024. Photo by Al-Joumhouriah TV channel via Getty Images

If both of the Mideast’s maritime chokepoints did come under threat, it would significantly increase the constraints on oil and natural gas supplies from the region.

Analysts with the Australian investment bank and financial services firm Macquarie are now warning of a 40% chance that oil could hit $200 a barrel by June, which has never happened.

Iran’s parliament is drafting a bill to make its fees on ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz “official,” according to state run media, with the plan apparently set to be finalized on or around the first week of April.

The United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state most targeted by Iran, by far, since the war started, is pushing dozens of countries to join it in forming a “Hormuz Security Force” to reopen and defend the strait, according to the Financial Times.

The head of the UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, was in Washington this week for a meeting with Vice President JD Vance. He said Iran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz amount to “economic terrorism.”

“When Iran holds Hormuz hostage, every nation pays the ransom. At the gas pump, at the grocery store, at the pharmacy, every household,” he said in a speech the day before his meeting with Vance. “No country can be allowed to destabilize the global economy in this way. Not now, not ever.”

The Iranian regime’s retention of key nuclear weapons facilities and its material for building atomic bombs — highly enriched uranium — has led to new efforts by the U.S. and Israeli militaries to take out the last vestiges of the regime’s program.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that, that it’s “Air Force Struck the Arak Heavy Water Plant—A Key Plutonium Production Site for Nuclear Weapons.” The Arak plant is located in central Iran.

Prior to Friday’s attack, an IDF spokesperson told Fox News Digital concerning Arak, that there is a “high estimation”that attacks on “uranium enrichment sites are part of the plan.” The IDF declined to answer more specific questions about its target list and if any ground operations to retrieve the nuclear weapons-grade uranium were being considered.

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An IDF infographic shows Iran’s Arak heavy water plant, described as a key infrastructure for plutonium production.(IDF)

Reuters, quoting regime media outlet Fars, reported that joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Friday hit the Khondab heavy water research reactor.

A statement released by the IDF said, “Heavy water is a unique material used to operate nuclear reactors, such as the inactive Arak reactor, which was originally designed to have weapons-grade plutonium production capabilities. These materials can also be used as a neutron source for nuclear weapons.”

The IDF statement added that “The plant was a significant economic asset for the terror regime and served as a source of income for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, generating tens of millions of dollars for the regime each year.”

The regime’s foreign minister posted a condemnation of Israel and warned the Jewish state, “Iran will exact HEAVY price for Israeli crimes.”

According to an article published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), “The IR-40 Arak, aka Khondab, Heavy Water Reactor and Heavy Water Production Plant date to the early 2000s… The reactor core design was ideal for making substantial amounts of weapon-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons.”

STRIKES MAY SET IRAN BACK — BUT LIKELY WON’T END NUCLEAR PROGRAM, UN WATCHDOG CHIEF SAYS

Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital,”The one nuclear site which hasn’t been hit to date has been Pickaxe Mountain, so striking that site as part of Operation Epic Fury will be important to further degrade the Iranian nuclear program.”

A White House spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to President Trump’s cabinet meeting comments about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Trump said on Thursday, “We’re free to roam over their cities and towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and missiles and drones that they’re building.”

A map shows damage to Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after being struck by the United States in Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025.(Fox News)

David Albright, a physicist, founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security told Fox News Digital that with respect to key nuclear weapons facilities that remain, “The elephants in the tent are Natanz and Isfahan. There was an attack on Natanz that the Iranians revealed, but the Israelis said we are not aware of an attack. So it must have been the U.S.,” he claimed.

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He said that Natanz has enriched uranium. “The Iranians were doing recovery operations in the underground fuel enrichment plant there and continuing to build this pickaxe mountain tunnel complex, which could hold enriched uranium. Right next to it is another tunnel complex that was built much earlier, around 2007… And the Iranians sealed it up, fortified it. There is something obviously important there.”

Albright said U.S. and Israeli airstrikes “have not attacked the underground Isfahan site.We know, according to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], highly enriched uranium is in that site.”He continued that, “There may be an enrichment plant under construction in that underground complex. We would like that site to be attacked.”

Iranian worshippers hold up their hands as signs of unity with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during an anti-Israeli rally to condemn Israel’s attacks on Iran, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2025.(Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Albright warned that the war should not end like the previous U.S.-Israel war with Iran in 2025 with Tehran retaining the “crown jewels” of its atomic weapons program: highly enriched uranium and a number of centrifuges.

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He warned, “You don’t want it to come out of this war with the same kind of nuclear weapons capabilities that it had at the end of June war with a higher incentive to build a bomb.” He added, that is why it’s so important ‘to finish the job,” in Iran.

Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal, and email him at benjamin.weinthal@fox.com

US veterans’ agency defied court order on union bargaining, judge says

March 27, 2026 4:45 PM UTC / Reuters

Summary

• Agency terminated union contract despite judge’s ruling
• Judge says move flouts the rule of law
• Agency could now be held in contempt of court

March 27 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday threatened to hold the U.S. Department of Veterans ​Affairs in contempt of court for terminating a union contract covering 320,000 of the agency’s employees shortly after she had ‌ordered that it be reinstated.

U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose in Providence, Rhode Island, during a hearing said the VA’s abrupt move announced in an after-hours court filing on Thursday was openly defiant of her March 13 ruling and had thrown the case

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CBS News gas and oil price tracker shows how much energy costs are rising amid the Iran war – CBS News

March 27, 2026 / 1:59 PM EDT / CBS News

The war with Iran is pushing up oil and gas prices, creating widespread financial strain on U.S. motorists, food delivery drivers, farmers as well as the U.S. Postal Service.

Analysts say prices are likely to remain elevated until shipping resumes in the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which one-fifth of the world’s oil supply flows.

Gas prices are typically higher in California, which relies heavily on oil imports from abroad and has higher taxes on gasoline than other U.S. states. Still, prices have increased across the country.

Diesel, which powers trucks, boats and trains that transport U.S. goods, has risen more quickly than regular gasoline, in part because diesel was already in short supply before the war began.

Oil only accounts for half the cost of a gallon of gas. The rest is a combination of refining, taxes and marketing, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The time of year also influences gas prices, as demand for fuel rises during warmer months.

The U.S. is the world’s leading oil producer. However, the global market sets the price. Higher oil costs mean higher prices for Americans fueling their cars.

And it’s not just gas: Heating bills may be getting more expensive as the price of residential heating oil has begun to climb in response to the war in Iran.

Edited by Aimee Picchi

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Biden judge freezes Trump administration’s move against AI firm, fueling battle over security authority

March 27, 2026 2:19pm EDT / Fox News

A federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration from banning AI firm Anthropic from Department of War use is igniting a debate over whether the ruling pushes courts into national security decision-making.

The ruling, issued late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, a Biden appointee to the Northern District of California, pauses the administration’s broader effort to bar the company while the case proceeds, though it does not explicitly require the Pentagon to use Anthropic. The judge also gave the government one week to appeal.

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael wrote on X that the ruling contained “dozens of factual errors” and was issued “during a time of conflict,” arguing it “seeks to upend the (president’s) role as Commander in Chief” and disrupt the department’s ability to conduct military operations.

Michael said the administration views Anthropic as still designated a supply chain risk pending appeal, signaling officials are disputing the scope and effect of the court’s injunction.

Lin said the Pentagon’s move to designate Anthropic as a national security risk was”likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”

“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government,” Lin said.

“Can a judge order the Department of War to use a vendor that is a security risk? No, but also yes? Judge Lin (Biden N.D. California) tries to stop President Trump/Secretary Hegseth from banning Anthropic. But acknowledges they can choose not to use it?” one X user Eric Wess wrote on the social media platform.

Others described the ruling as “pure judicial activism” and accused the judge of interfering in a national security decision.

But supporters of the decision — including a bipartisan group of nearly 150 retired federal and state judges — say the administration overstepped, warning the Pentagon’s use of a “supply chain risk” designation appeared improperly applied and could chill free speech and legitimate business activity.

In a March 3 letter, the Pentagon had notified Anthropic it would be designated a supply chain risk to national security. That designation ordered that no contractor, supplier or partner doing business with the United States military may conduct commercial activity with Anthropic.

The legal fight follows a broader dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how the company’s AI system, Claude, can be used in military operations. Claude is the only commercial AI system approved for classified use.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth had warned Anthropic it would face termination of its $200 million contract, awarded in July 2025, or be designated a supply chain risk if it did not allow its AI platform to be approved for all lawful uses.

Anthropic insisted it would not allow Claude to be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.

Pentagon officials say such uses already are not permitted, emphasizing that humans remain in the loop for lethal decisions and that the military does not conduct domestic surveillance, but maintain that private companies cannot dictate how their systems are used in lawful operations.

Lin pointed to the breadth of the measures — including a government-wide ban and contractor restrictions — saying they did not appear “tailored to the stated national security concern” and instead “look(ed) like an attempt to cripple Anthropic.

Anthropic welcomed the decision, saying in a statement: “We’re grateful to the court for moving swiftly, and pleased they agree Anthropic is likely to succeed on the merits.”

Hegseth described CEO Dario Amodei and Anthropic of a “master class in arrogance” and a “textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government” in a Feb. 27 post on X.

OpenAI has emerged as a key alternative, securing a Pentagon deal to deploy its models on classified systems as tensions with Anthropic escalated.

Still, Anthropic has not been fully displaced — its Claude system remains deeply embedded in military workflows, and replacing it would take time.

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House GOP erupts over Senate’s overnight move to fund pieces of DHS | CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2026, 12:40 PM ET / By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox

Speaker Mike Johnson does not currently have the House votes to approve the Senate’s early morning funding measure to fund large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security.

But the House Republican leader and his team are so furious about the bill that they do not want to put it to a vote on the floor. At issue, multiple GOP sources say, is that Senate Republicans did not include money for federal immigration enforcement or border patrol in the funding bill that would reopen the remainder of the department.

“The one thing I can tell you is that there is a common disgust from our leadership team and from our members about what they did over in the Senate, and it really was not appropriate,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Friday morning.

Enraged House conservatives, meanwhile, publicly blasted the bill they said Senate Majority Leader John Thune jammed through his chamber in the middle of the night, with no roll call vote or the chance to debate it. And some in the House GOP leadership team are seriously contemplating whether to reject the measure altogether and put forward their own proposal, the sources said – though no decisions have yet been made.

Johnson and his team are now scrambling to figure out if the GOP conference can accept the bill or whether they should attempt to boomerang legislation with their own priorities back to the Senate, the sources said.

GOP leaders have spent the morning huddling about next steps, while staff has frantically pored through the bill.

In one display of anger, leaders of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus announced they would not support the Senate measure, demanding that any bill include money for border patrol, as well as one of President Donald Trump’s top domestic priorities: new voter ID restrictions.

“The only thing we’re going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work,” said Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who leads the Freedom Caucus.

And he downplayed the urgency felt by some of his GOP colleagues that airports will suffer in the meantime: “The president has already said he’s going to fund TSA out of funds he has.”

While Thune told reporters in the early morning hours of Friday that he believed the “House is aware of what we’re contemplating,” multiple senior GOP House leaders told CNN they received no warning about Thune’s plans to push through a measure that would only partially fund the department.

“I don’t even know what it is yet,” House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole told CNN when asked Friday about whether he could support the plan.

House GOP leaders are skeptical they can pass the bill under regular order, which requires a procedural vote on the floor that requires near-total unanimity among Republicans. (Some Democrats have suggested they would help with that vote, an unusual move that reflects the tight House margins and growing desire to find a funding solution.)

Another option would be Democrats helping to pass the bill under a fast-tracked process that requires two-thirds approval of the House, known as “suspension.”

But GOP hardliners detest this suspension route – and have actually tucked a provision in House rules that prevents those kinds of votes from happening on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Leadership can get around the rule, but it would cause intense consternation in their ranks.

Either route would be messy and likely require Trump’s blessing to help round up GOP votes.

But some Republicans insist they party has no choice, with TSA woes increasing by the hour during a popular spring break travel season, as well as concerns about FEMA, Coast Guard operations and others.

“I mean, we’ve got to, for God’s sake, we’ve got to open this piece of government up,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey told CNN.

“We do it the hardest, most painful, most awkward, most drawn out miserable way, but eventually we get it done,” Rep. Frank Lucas told CNN. “This is a classic example of that.”

House Democrats have not made formal statements about the measure but multiple people close to leadership believe the majority of the caucus will ultimately support the plan. The conference is huddling Friday morning to discuss next steps — and how much help they’re willing to lend Johnson on the floor.

While the bill does not include reforms that the party had pushed for, it does not include any new money for ICE — a significant concession, since Democrats see this as a chance for further negotiation in the future.

Importantly for Democrats, the bill does not include money for Border Patrol, which was a major sticking point in previous talks. (The Senate measure does include money for US customs operations.)

CNN’s Ted Barrett and Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.