Members of the military will miss paychecks on Friday if Trump doesn’t intervene like he did earlier this month, when he paid active-duty servicemembers by tapping about $6.5 billion meant for military research and development efforts. But it could be hard to make the same move again since that pot of cash had about $10 billion left before the president pulled from it last time.
Trump does plan to continue using other funding to cover military paychecks during the shutdown, according to two White House officials granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Pentagon officials also said Friday that they have accepted an anonymous gift of $130 million from a wealthy donor to help pay military salaries during the shutdown.
The White House has not disclosed how much money it believes is still available, however, and a multibillion-dollar payout twice a month could quickly drain the Pentagon’s leftover cash.
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one of the big things I remember about being in the army was always being broke. being single wasn't bad, but after I got married. yeah, the pay sucked bigtime. living off post was even worse as the rent went up EVERY time we got a pay raise.
ReplyDeleteso, this move by these assholes is going to bite them in their asses more than they realize.
it is way past time that THEIR PAY got held up instead of the military.
i do believe that the democrats and some republicans will destroy america if they cannot get their way and keep their grift going
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