Elon Musk Offered To Pay Unpaid TSA Staff—The White House Said No

Source: International Business Times

Elon Musk at the 'Moonshots with Peter Diamandis' Podcast Elon Musk's offer to cover the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers during a partial government shutdown has been declined by the White House, sources tell CBS News. The billionaire entrepreneur publicly proposed the intervention in mid-March as the funding impasse threatened to leave thousands of federal employees without pay. But officials cited legal complications and the expectation that the shutdown would end shortly.