WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 3-16-26 (2/3)

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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With World Ready Go News, I'm Kent Covington. TSA agents are reporting for work at airports across the country today without pay for now. They just missed their first full paycheck since the Homeland Security funding lapse began more than a month ago. They're enduring their second shutdown in a matter of months, and many have had enough. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. 300 TSA agents have quit. The number of callouts are double what they were before. More than 100,000 DHS workers missed Friday.

paycheck. Federal employees are guaranteed back pay once the shutdown ends, but there's no telling when that will be. Security lines have stretched for hours at major airports, and a number of airports are now soliciting public donations to help agents get by while they wait. Democrats have refused to fund Homeland Security until Republicans agree to a list of demanded changes to immigration enforcement, but Pennsylvania Senator John Federman has broken with his party. Why would you want to punish all of these workers that under DHS. Only thing that it can do is just make us less safe, and that also makes people have to go without getting paid.

But Democrats say Republicans are to blame for refusing to agree to their DHS changes and for turning away proposals to fund only certain parts of DHS for now. A pro-life organization is investing big in Ohio ahead of this year's midterm elections. World's Dennis Crowley explains. This is in me, Anthony. America and Women Speak Out Pack are spending $3.5 million to urge Ohio voters to vote pro-life in November. Officials with the pro-life group say many pro-life voters do not consistently vote in the midterm elections, and they are working to change that. Volunteers will be knocking on the doors of half a million homes.

The campaign will include digital advertising, mail, and an early vote campaign. campaign. The Ohio campaign is part of an $80 million effort to reach at least 10.5 million voters across the nation. For World, I'm Dennis Crowley. President Trump is on track to become the first U.S. President to visit China since he visited eight years ago during his first term. And American officials are working to make it happen. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant met Sunday with China's vice premier for trade talks, and they were set to resume those talks again today. The White House hopes those discussions will set the stage for a summit later this month between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. China has not officially confirmed the visit, but last week, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi predicted that it would be a, quote, big year for China-US relations.

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