{"id":175646,"date":"2025-10-25T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175646"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:10:32","slug":"troops-paid-despite-dem-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175646","title":{"rendered":"Troops Paid Despite Dem Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175647 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chuck-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chuck-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chuck-500x292.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chuck-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chuck.jpg 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Foiled Again<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million under its general gift acceptance authority. The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of Service members\u2019 salaries and benefits. We are grateful for this donor\u2019s assistance after Democrats opted to withhold pay from troops.\u201d<br \/>\nPentagon spokesman Sean Parnell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Trump: Anonymous Friend Donated $130 Million to Pay Troops During Democrat Government Shutdown<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Amy Furr<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An anonymous donor gave $130 million to the U.S. Department of War to pay troops during the Democrats\u2019 government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday said a \u201cfriend\u201d sent the check to the government as military members\u2019 paychecks are on hold, Fox News reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called us the other day and said, \u2018I\u2019d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I\u2019d like to contribute personally, because I love the military and I love the country,&#8217;\u201d the president recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he would not reveal the individual\u2019s name unless he was granted permission, adding that the person did not present the gift for recognition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/25\/trump-anonymous-friend-donated-130-million-to-pay-troops-during-democrat-government-shutdown\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foiled Again \u201cOn October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of $130 &hellip; <a title=\"Troops Paid Despite Dem Shutdown\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175646\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troops Paid Despite Dem Shutdown<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":175647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}