{"id":217437,"date":"2025-10-11T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:36:08","slug":"trump-orders-pentagon-to-use-all-available-funds-to-pay-troops-despite-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217437\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders Pentagon to use \u2018all available funds\u2019 to pay troops despite shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has directed the Defence Department to use \u201call available funds\u201d to ensure American troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said in a social media post that he was acting because \u201cour Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Republican president\u2019s action removes one of the pressure points that could have forced Congress into action, likely ensuring that the shutdown \u2013 now in its 11th day and counting \u2013 extends into a third week and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But no similar action seems forthcoming for federal workers, thousands of whom are now being laid off during the lapse in government operations. The White House budget office started that process on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump blamed Democrats and said he was exercising his authority as commander in chief to direct Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201cto use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th\u201d. The Republican president added: \u201cWe have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Capitol Police close an entrance to the Capitol as the federal government continues its shutdown on Thursday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5715a7ce-2531-47af-813e-5e1bb5eaa729_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"US Capitol Police close an entrance to the Capitol as the federal government continues its shutdown on Thursday. Photo: AFP\"\/>US Capitol Police close an entrance to the Capitol as the federal government continues its shutdown on Thursday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US service members were in danger of not receiving their next pay cheque on Wednesday after the government shut down on October 1, the start of the federal budget cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has directed the Defence Department to use \u201call available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,123041,75378,1340,4515,84189,123039,9292,3,123038,123040,79589,1572,25244,21,19,22,20,25,14012,24,3123],"class_list":["post-217437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-troops","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-department-of-defence","tag-department-of-the-treasury","tag-government-shutdown","tag-news","tag-october-1","tag-october-15th","tag-office-of-management-and-budget","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-republican","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}