House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a plan on Wednesday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security.

The plan is called 'Compass Rail', and residents will see the earliest project materialize around 2030, with the so-called Inland Route — or what officials are calling the first phase of West -East Rail — connecting Springfield to Worcester and Boston.

The shells, shipped from China, are used at CRRC's Springfield manufacturing facility to create subway cars for the MBTA. They had been impounded by the Department of Homeland Security this past summer, over concerns they had been made with forced labor.

Despite hours-long lines at some of the nation's busiest hubs, Boston's international airport has experienced little-to-no visible effects of the partial government shutdown.

From June through August, commuter rail service will be free on Fridays, and the cost of monthly commuter rail passes will be cut in half over those three months.

It’s a potential endgame to the 42-day shutdown has jammed airports, disrupted travel and imposed financial hardship on workers.

MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said transit police responded “promptly and quickly.”

Boston has so far managed to avoid long lines during the partial government shutdown. But that's likely to change as more security agents walk off the job.

MassDOT awarded a contract to redevelop and run 18 service plazas to Applegreen last June, but the Irish company backed out after rival bidder Global Partners waged media, legal and public relations offensives to block the deal.

Proponents of a new project released plans to reconfigure roadways around Boston's Seaport for a new Silver Line connection. But the MTBA says it has no plans launch new service in the area.