Trump & Co. ARE trying to get Democrats to give them what they want in Spending Bill’s….
That IS cuts in Obamacre Healthcare and other programs anad agencies….
Democrats ARE holding firm in the US Senate against approving this…..
It’s been about 26 days and MORE people are NOT gonna receive paychecks and MORE people ARE going to see increases in their Health Insurance premiums …..
Now, with the shutdown into its fourth week and no end in sight, the administration will need to figure out where to pull additional funds from if it wants its forces to be paid, should Congress fail to come up with a solution in time.
“While I am grateful President Trump paid service members thus far, I am concerned that money will run out by the end of October and our military won’t get paid on time,” said Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), a former Navy helicopter pilot who last month introduced a stand-alone military pay bill, the Pay Our Troops Act. The bill has made little movement.
Trump on Oct. 11 directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to pay service members’ midmonth paychecks by using $8 billion in previously appropriated Pentagon funds meant for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E).
But that pay cycle cost roughly $6.5 billion, leaving only $1.5 billion leftover for the looming Oct. 31 payday, which is expected to cost $6 billion to $7 billion, according to Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
“My understanding is that the initial money pulled from the RDT&E account was only sufficient to cover the Oct. 15th payroll,” he told The Hill…..
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the United States will not be able to pay service members by the middle of next month if the government shutdown is prolonged.
“We were able to pay the military employees from excess funds at the Pentagon, middle of this month. I think we’ll be able to pay them beginning in November,” Bessent told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”
“But by Nov. 15, our troops and service members who are willing to risk their lives aren’t going to be able to get paid. What an embarrassment,” he added.
On Friday, President Trump praised a donor who gave $130 million to the Defense Department to pay service members who missed a paycheck as the government shutdown stretched into its fourth week.
“He’s a great gentleman,” Trump previously told reporters. “He’s a patron.”
“He’s obviously a very substantial man, and he contributed $130 million for the military in order to make up any difference, so he wanted to see the military get paid,” he continued. “So did I. And he’s a wonderful man.”
Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a GOP bill to pay active-duty members of the military and other essential federal employees who have had to work amid the government shutdown….
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