“Secret Service remains unpaid” during the partial government shutdown.”
What PolitiFact found
The Secret Service is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which is currently in a shutdown because lawmakers have not passed the agency’s regular funding bills. In a typical partial government shutdown, workers employed by an unfunded agency would not be paid until funding is restored. The current Department of Homeland Security shutdown is different because the Trump administration has shifted money from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to the department’s employees, including Secret ...
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In short
Tim Scott (U.S. Senator, R-S.C.) made this claim around 26 April 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 April 2026, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tim Scott has 15 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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