{"id":175158,"date":"2025-10-13T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175158"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:42:47","slug":"troops-will-be-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175158","title":{"rendered":"Troops Will Be Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B<\/h3>\n

The president said Saturday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has funds available to pay troops on Wednesday.<\/em>
\nBy Ben Johansen and Jennifer Scholtes<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he will direct Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to \u201cuse all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th\u201d as the government shutdown nears its third week.<\/p>\n

After the Senate failed to approve spending legislation this week, military members were preparing to go without their paychecks on Wednesday for the first time in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS,\u201d the president wrote in the social media post Saturday. \u201cI will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

To scrounge up enough money to pay the troops, the Pentagon is tapping into its research and development accounts to use funding Congress made available for two years, according to an OMB official. Specifically, about $8 billion is being shifted from accounts that fund military research, development, testing and evaluation efforts, according to two people familiar with the plan who were granted anonymity to discuss its details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politico<\/a><\/p>\n

Cool. RDT&E takes the bite- tell me again about sacrosanct “different pots of money” explanations for funding shortfalls. That argument just evaporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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