Transportation Security Administration officers, who have worked without pay for weeks because of a partial government shutdown, "should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday," the Department of Homeland Security said in a social media post on Friday afternoon.

The announcement comes as congressional lawmakers haggle over a possible deal to fund at least some DHS functions, including TSA, and as U.S. air travelers at many airports nationwide suffer through much-longer-than-usual TSA screening lines.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not wait for Congress to appropriate funds for TSA agents, but the executive branch would unilaterally pay them.

"Today, at the direction of President Trump and @SecMullinDHS, TSA has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce," DHS said in the post on X on Friday.

"TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30. TSA is grateful to the President and Secretary for their leadership to put money back into the pockets of TSA employees who worked without pay during the ongoing Democrat DHS shutdown."