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.

“The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport,” the AP reports.

Closing airspace over a major U.S. city for security reasons for an extended period hasn’t happened since the 9-11 attacks.

“The federal government will not have to restore funding to the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel project between New York City and New Jersey before 5 p.m. on Thursday, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Monday,” the New York Times reports.

“U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas had ordered the funding restored at the end of last week, after the states of New York and New Jersey sued the federal Department of Transportation for suspending the project’s funding four months ago.”

“Workers were winding down their construction activity on the biggest transportation infrastructure project in the nation as the Trump administration’s prolonged suspension of its funding threatened to bring work to a halt on Friday,” the New York Times reports.

“The project, known as Gateway, centers on a new $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey. Nearly 1,000 people have been working at sites on both sides of the Hudson and in the river, and more than $1 billion has already been spent, according to the project’s planners, the Gateway Development Commission.”

“Nearly all of that work was scheduled to stop on Friday unless federal officials agreed to restore Gateway’s funding or a court ordered them to.”

“Airlines canceled nearly 4,000 U.S. flights scheduled for the weekend as a massive winter storm sweeps across the country, with heavy snow and sleet in the forecast followed by bitter cold,” CNBC reports.

Axios: Massive winter storm could lay bare Trump’s FEMA cuts.