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Airport travel chaos continues as DHS funding freeze becomes longest partial shutdown in history – US politics live

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 778 words · By Tom Ambrose
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What to know about Airport travel chaos continues as DHS funding freeze becomes longest partial shutdown in history – US politics live

Trump says he has 'no problem' with Russian oil tanker bringing relief to Cuba despite blockade President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been…

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What happened

Trump says he has 'no problem' with Russian oil tanker bringing relief to Cuba despite blockade President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast of Cuba delivering relief to the island, which has been…

Why it matters

We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload because they need … they have to survive,” Trump told reporters as he flew back to Washington.

Common ground

When asked if a New York Times report that the tanker would be allowed to reach Cuba was true, Trump said: “I told them, if a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem whether it’s Russia or not.” On Monday, Russia’s transport…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Trump says he has 'no problem' with Russian oil tanker bringing relief to Cuba despite blockade”
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Wikipedia entries mention U.S. sanctions and Cuban oil shortages but do not directly reference Trump's statement about the Russian oil tanker. No corroborating sources found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An oil shortage and economic crisis is taking place in Cuba, caused by an American fuel blockade. The island is dependent on imported oil, mostly from Venezuela and Mexico; after the 2026 United State…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Cuban_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) is a term that gained prominence in May 2025 after many threats and reversals during the trade war U.S. president Donald Trump initiated with his administration's "Lib…
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Claim 2: “The presidential memorandum directed the DHS secretary to send funds 'that have a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations' to pay TSA employees”
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Claim 3: “The abortion rate is holding steady in the US despite total and partial bans in some states”
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Claim 4: “Iran has warned the US that it is prepared to confront any ground assault, accusing Washington of secretly planning a land attack”
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Claim 5: “Russia’s transport ministry said the oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin arrived at the Cuban port of Matanzas carrying 'humanitarian supplies' of about 730,000 barrels of oil”
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Wikipedia entries discuss shadow fleets and Russo-Georgian crisis but do not mention the Anatoly Kolodkin tanker or 730,000 barrels of oil. No direct evidence found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — After the Russo-Georgian War in August 2008, a number of incidents occurred in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Tensions between Georgia, Ukraine, the United States and the NATO on one side and Russia, Sou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-war_Russo-Georgian_crisis…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A shadow fleet, also referred to as a dark fleet, is a ship or group of such shadow ships, "...that uses concealing tactics to smuggle sanctioned goods". Shadow fleets are a direct response to interna…
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Claim 6: “More than 8 million people protested against the Trump administration at more than 3,300 No Kings events across the US and in more than a dozen countries”
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Claim 7: “Trump signed a memo late on Friday ordering DHS to restore pay to TSA employees who have missed two paychecks”
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Claim 8: “The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) became the longest shutdown in US history”
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Cross-referenced The Guardian report confirms the DHS shutdown was the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history. No additional sources found.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the fourth-largest agency in the US government, became the longest partial shutdown in US history on Sunday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/dhs-longest-…
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Claim 9: “With 9.4% of the total federal workforce, numbering 193,867 employees, the DHS is the fourth-largest agency in the US government”
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Claim 10: “Pope Leo has said God ignores the prayers of leaders who wage war and have 'hands full of blood'”
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Claim 11: “More than 480 TSA workers have left altogether since the start of the shutdown”
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Claim 12: “The vessel is sanctioned by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom following the war in Ukraine”
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Wikipedia entries reference Russian sanctions and EU-Russia relations but do not specify the vessel's sanctions by the U.S., EU, and UK. No direct evidence found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian shadow fleet is a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Russia to evade sanctions, following the enactment of 2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions by the G7 countrie…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia–European Union relations are the international relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia. Russia borders five EU member states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; the Ru…
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