{"id":204965,"date":"2026-03-22T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-ice-agents-at-airports-would-do-security-like-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T10:27:28","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-ice-agents-at-airports-would-do-security-like-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-says-ice-agents-at-airports-would-do-security-like-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president says ICE agents at airports would \u2018do security like no one has ever seen before\u2019 &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety \u2013 key US politics stories from 21 March at a glance<br \/>Donald Trump threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety.<br \/>Transportation Security Administration personnel are set to miss a second full paycheck on 27 March amid a partial government shutdown in its 36th day as lawmakers clash over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency for TSA and ICE.<br \/>\u201cI will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday, in response to the airport staff shortages which have disrupted travel.<br \/>More than 400 TSA workers have quit since the partial shutdown began on 14 February, DHS said. ICE agents are not specifically trained for airport security, which is TSA\u2019s domain.<br \/>TSA officers have called in sick as paychecks have dried up, with the shortage of security agents disrupting travel at major airports. More than 10% of TSA officers called in sick on more than half of the past seven days, DHS said in a statement on Saturday.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/trump-threatens-to-send-ice-agents-to-airports-unless-dhs-deal-reached\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Donald Trump has been condemned as a \u201cvile, disgusting man\u201d and a \u201csick human being\u201d after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/trump-robert-mueller-death\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The counter-terrorism official who resigned from Donald Trump\u2019s administration over the US and Israel\u2019s war against Iran, Joe Kent, has said he is bracing for political retribution \u2013 but would do it all again anyway.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/joe-kent-trump-retribution-iran-war\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The Trump administration has waived sanctions on Iranian oil purchases at sea for 30 days to ease surging oil prices driven by the US-Israeli war on Iran.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/us-sanctions-iranian-oil\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/trump-iran-war-stirs-anger-maga-kentucky\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump\u2019s Iran war stirs anger in Maga country Kentucky<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/ice-deaths-trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">The circumstances of many of the record number of deaths in US immigration custody under the second Trump administration<\/a><\/strong> have left loved ones often searching in vain for answers.<br \/>Eight states asked a US judge on Friday to issue a temporary restraining order to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/states-judge-block-nexstar-tegna-merger-tv\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">stop a $3.5bn merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>Catching up?<em> Here\u2019s what happened on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/trump-news-latest-updates-today\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">20 March 2026<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxNLUNoS19sX1FpSEQ1MkNaSmtDcjhldHlnbnlfRzhsbHFPQnpwSkoyMjNNcXpNaTA1REtrR0tGNjQ4VWRQa3hOM01SVVFmNUVXdThTX3hxWXVQME0wRDRvYTlpX3VkVmRUV3JHbk5kZGNiX2p1UnQzZ2xqUlZ6cnIwaC1VRUZ4dw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree to fund airport safety \u2013 key US politics stories from 21 March at a glanceDonald Trump threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports on Monday if congressional Democrats do not immediately agree 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