FIRST ON FOX: A House GOP lawmaker is unveiling new legislation aimed at easing airport chaos that's hitting travelers across the country during the ongoing partial government shutdown.

Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., introduced a bill on Monday to ensure Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers are paid during shutdowns by creating a Transportation Security Trust Fund to help operations and personnel wherever needed.

It would be funded by the Aviation Passenger Security Fee, also called the 9/11 passenger security fee in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It's a small cost collected by airlines — $5.60 for a one-way trip and up to $11.20 for a round-trip — for flights that originate in the U.S. and is meant to go toward passenger security.

Langworthy's proposal comes days after TSA agents missed their first full paychecks of the shutdown, which has now gone on roughly a month with no end in sight.

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While they are entitled to back pay when the shutdown is over, the lack of a consistent paycheck and uncertainty over its duration has forced scores of TSA agents to call out sick and look for other ways to earn income to pay bills and feed their families.

Travelers in places like Louisiana and Texas have been asked to arrive hours early for flights to accommodate longer wait times for security.

Delays have also been exacerbated by bad weather in parts of the country, including up and down the East Coast.

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"This is now the third time in just six months that TSA agents have been forced to work without receiving a paycheck," Langworthy told Fox News Digital. "Morale and recruitment are taking a profound hit, and we’ve already lost more than 300 agents, putting the agency’s mission at grave risk."

He said his bill "will help ensure that our hardworking agents get paid, and that we retain the vigilant, professional workforce necessary to protect the traveling public."

"Doing nothing is a national security crisis waiting to happen," Langworthy warned.

Democrats walked away from bipartisan funding negotiations earlier this year after Congress passed federal budgets for all aspects of the federal government except for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Democratic leaders are protesting the Trump administration's handling of illegal immigration and withholding support from any spending bill that funds Trump's crackdown, turning down multiple compromise offers for guardrails from the White House.

DHS oversees a wide variety of federal agencies, including the TSA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Secret Service, and others.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced Monday that Democrats would try to force a vote on funding all of DHS except for immigration-related agencies — likely a nonstarter for Republicans.

The standoff has seen new significance as more and more TSA agents are forced to choose between working without pay and finding second jobs to make ends meet. Concerns have also been exacerbated by the U.S. and Israel's operation in Iran, which has raised the national security threat level within the country.

A new terrorist group with suspected links to the Iranian regime emerged in Europe last week. Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right) has claimed responsibility for four attacks on Jewish targets across the continent.

A synagogue in Liège, Belgium, was the first target of an explosive attack on Monday. An arson attack on a Rotterdam synagogue followed overnight on Friday and an explosive device was set off at a Jewish school in Amsterdam the next evening.

Several sources have linked an additional attack at a Jewish site in Greece on Wednesday with the group, though no specifics were given about the target or method of attack.

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Joe Truzman, senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the FDD’s Long War Journal, told Fox News Digital that when he saw the statement from the organization following their Monday attack, he "thought it was a little bit amateurish." Truzman said that after videos from the group became to emerge, he "realized that there's probably something more here to this organization."

He said that the war in Iran has likely "compelled the group, for whoever is behind this, to start launching these attacks." Truzman said he "suspect[s] this organization is being directed" and that there is "an entity behind it." 

Truzman says he suspects the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) itself, which he says "has been active in Europe" and has "attempted to eliminate or assassinate dissidents." Though he does not discount them being entity of an Iraqi militia group.

In addition to anticipating further attacks from Ashab al-Yamin, Truzman said that he is concerned that "the dissemination of [terror] videos online may compel other people to commit antisemitic attacks" in Europe. According to Truzman, Ashab al-Yamin’s videos are "starting to gain traction. They're starting to get the views, and people are seeing it. And maybe the ones that are radicalized already or are going to be radicalized, may be influenced by these videos, and may commit an antisemitic attack or an attack on a Jewish site."

He said that the attacks "have been mostly unsophisticated, but things may change, and they may start targeting people, too, during the day, when it's busy." So far all attacks have come at night.

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Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on X that the group was tied to the regime in Tehran. "A jihadi group tied to an Iranian proxy" was responsible for the string of attacks. They noted that "the IRGC continues to sponsor and export terror across the globe."

Onlookers are increasingly tying the attacks back to the war in Iran. The World Jewish Congress raised alarm bells about Ashab al-Yamin on X, stating that "security analysts believe the group may be part of Iran’s expanding network of proxy actors operating far beyond the Middle East." The Congress called on governments to "treat this threat with the seriousness it deserves, dismantle the networks behind these attacks, and ensure Jewish communities can live and worship in safety."

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister, called the attacks "part of a troubling pattern." He explained that "terror networks linked to the Iranian axis are trying to expand their arena of activity into European cities and Jewish communities."

The State Department did not respond to questions about whether it had previously been tracking Ashab al-Yamin, or if it planned to issue a warning to Americans traveling abroad to avoid Jewish institutions.

Israel’s National Security Council recently warned its citizens traveling abroad to conceal items that might identify them as Israeli or Jewish and to "avoid visiting sites identified as Jewish or Israeli" following the first of three shootings at Toronto synagogues in early March.