EAST BOSTON, Mass. —

Nearly 300 TSA officers at Boston's Logan Airport will receive $10,000 bonuses for continuously working unpaid shifts during the country's government shutdown, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced Sunday.

The government shutdown, the longest in the country's history, lasted 43 days and ended on Nov. 12. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Government employees, including TSA workers and air traffic controllers, continued to work as a result of the shutdown.

Noem announced that TSA officers would receive the bonuses the day after the shutdown ended, saying that the check would be paid using "carryover funds

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