New York Times: “The war in Iran is disrupting air travel around the world, but airlines in regions like the Middle East and elsewhere in Asia are being hit much harder than those in the United States.”

“For weeks, Iran has blocked a substantial share of the global oil trade through a vital choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, causing the price of jet fuel to roughly double. Because fuel is a large part of the cost of flights, airlines are among the first businesses to feel the impact of the war.”

“But airlines and the countries they operate in are exposed in different ways to rising fuel costs, flight restrictions and weakening demand.”

Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, leaving an impasse unresolved that has led to hourslong lines at some airports as security staff don’t show up for work.”

Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump said he did not want Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detailed to airports to wear masks as they assist with security screenings — even as he continued to support officers using face coverings during deportation operations.”

Rachel Bade: “If President Trump thought dispatching ICE agents to airports would force Democrats to blink in the never-ending DHS shutdown standoff, he’s in for a rude awakening this week.”

“After Trump floated the idea this weekend — sending immigration enforcement to help with long airport lines caused by the shutdown — I checked in with a bunch of Democratic lawmakers and top staffers. Their response wasn’t just unfazed; at times, it was downright giddy.”

Said one Democratic official: “Great — do it! Let’s fuck around and find out.”

Said another: “Armed agents at airports will crush tourism and freak people out.”

And a third: “Can they please show up in masks?”

New York Times: “Mr. Trump posted the threat, then the timing of the deployment, in an apparent attempt to break an impasse between congressional Democrats and the White House over immigration enforcement, a stalemate that caused a partial government shutdown last month.”

With the Department of Homeland Security still unfunded and TSA agents not being paid, President Trump threatened to “move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before.”

Elon Musk offered to pay the salaries of all TSA employees during the partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security.

“Airline and transportation officials are warning that the nation is on the verge of a widespread meltdown unless Congress comes to an agreement to end the partial government shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security by this time next week,” NewsNation reports.

“U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Thursday that if a partial government shutdown continues, small ​airports could soon shut down as 50,000 airport security officers go ‌without pay,” Reuters reports.

“Since Sunday, around 10% of Transportation Security Administration airport personnel have failed to show for work daily – about five times the normal rate.”

“Airports are warning travelers to prepare to spend hours in security checkpoint lines, with the partial government shutdown stretching federal security workers,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Lines at security checkpoints continued to stretch for hours at airports across the country Monday morning, as the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues,” CNN reports.

“A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the federal government’s attempt to end New York’s congestion pricing toll was illegal, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill,” the New York Times reports.

“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for months failed to appropriately respond to the findings of an internal watchdog that one of her biggest changes to airport security—allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating ‘significant’ security risks,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“President Donald Trump is personally driving efforts to remake Dulles International Airport — and his plans go far beyond trying to put his name on it,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump earlier this month hosted about a half-dozen infrastructure and construction companies in the Oval Office, with executives taking turns pitching the president and Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy on their proposals to overhaul the Washington-area airport.”

“The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport,” the AP reports.