Back in the fall, TSA workers held out through the longest government shutdown in the history of the U.S.—43 days—but now 376 have quit since this Homeland Security shutdown started on February 14. This is clearly bothering the president, who wrote on Truth Social on Saturday that he will send in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to work in place of TSA this coming Monday. In a separate post, he wrote, “I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia.” Between these two imperfect plans, the one where the billionaire steps in and pays people’s salaries is easily the more pleasant one. Unfortunately there are good reasons not to trust that Elon Musk will necessarily pay the salaries of TSA agents anytime soon, just because he says he would like to offer to do so. What appears at first to be an expression of generosity often turns out to just be Musk making some weird point. For instance, in 2018 he offered to pay for home water filtration systems for everyone in Flint who met a certain set of parameters for lead contamination. They just had to