Musk said he would step in to pay TSA employees as the DHS funding impasse drags on and traveler frustration at airports grows.

TSA workers have been going without paychecks as the partial shutdown stretches on. Security lines at airports have stretched for hours.

Elon Musk has said that he wants to cover Transportation Security Administration paychecks while a federal funding lapse leaves airport screeners working without salaries. The offer lands as airport support efforts expand,

Elon Musk wants to pay the salaries of TSA agents who have either been working unpaid or not showing up for work, causing huge lines at US airports.

Because it is a class action case, it is not clear what amount in damages Musk will have to pay, but it is likely in the billions.

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WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, said on Saturday he would cover the paychecks of U.S. Transportation Security Administration officers during their second unpaid work stoppage in six months amid a protracted federal funding lapse.