{"id":167693,"date":"2025-10-11T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/president-trump-says-he-has-identified-funds-to-pay-us-troops-during-shutdown-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:52:48","slug":"president-trump-says-he-has-identified-funds-to-pay-us-troops-during-shutdown-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/president-trump-says-he-has-identified-funds-to-pay-us-troops-during-shutdown-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump says he has 'identified funds' to pay US troops during shutdown – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> said Saturday his administration has found a way to pay troops during the government shutdown<\/a>.
In a post on Truth Social<\/a> on Saturday, Oct. 11, President Trump said he had authorized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> to use “identified funds” to pay the military.
During the government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, members of the military could face missing a check on Oct. 15. However, Trump had said on Oct. 9 that members of the military would not miss a check, referencing possible stand-alone legislation to pay the troops<\/a> during the shutdown.
Federal civil workers were expected to get smaller paychecks Oct. 10 because of the shutdown.
Trump’s post on Truth Social, posted at 1:35 p.m. ET, read: “That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown.”
There are about 1.3 million active-duty members who make up the U.S. military, in addition to hundreds of thousands of National Guard members and non-service members employed by the Department of War, who will go without pay if some action during the shutdown is not taken.
The Pentagon previously told USA TODAY that military members were last paid on Tuesday, Sept. 30<\/a>, as scheduled, but they will not receive payment again until appropriations are restored.
One of the most emotional moments of the shutdown<\/a> came Oct. 9 when a woman identifying herself as a military wife confronted\u00a0House Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, R-Louisiana, during a call-in program on C-Span.
\u201cAs a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party, and I’m very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back,\u201d said the woman, who said her two children with severe medical conditions \u201ccould die.\u201d \u201cYou refuse to do that, just for a show.”
Johnson said situations like hers keep him up at night, but he blamed Democrats for the uncertainty.\u201cThe Democrats are the ones that are preventing you from getting a check,\u201d he said.
Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, R-Virginia, who proposed legislation in September to\u00a0pay members of the military despite the shutdown<\/a>,\u00a0urged fellow House GOP leadership Oct. 8<\/a>\u00a0to swiftly pass her bill.
She has 148 co-sponsors. But the House is out of session while waiting for the Senate to approve legislation to reopen the government until Nov. 21.\u00a0
Contributing: Zac Anderson, Michelle Del Rey, Joey Garrison and Zachary Schermele<\/em>
Mike Snider is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, X and email him at \u00a0<\/em>mikegsnider<\/em><\/a> \u00a0& \u00a0<\/em>@mikegsnider.bsky.social<\/em><\/a> \u00a0& \u00a0<\/em>@mikesnider<\/em><\/a> & msnider@usatoday.com<\/em>
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President Donald Trump said Saturday his administration has found a way to pay troops during the government shutdown.In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, Oct. 11, President Trump said he had authorized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use “identified funds” to pay the military.During the government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, members of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}