{"id":167720,"date":"2025-10-12T01:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-troops-will-be-paid-despite-shutdown-president-claims-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:54:47","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-us-troops-will-be-paid-despite-shutdown-president-claims-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-us-troops-will-be-paid-despite-shutdown-president-claims-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: US troops will be paid despite shutdown, president claims &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump says he has directed the defence secretary to release funds on 15 October. Key US politics stories from 11 October at a glance<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed he had found a way to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US military<\/a> troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, to release funds.<br \/>Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: \u201cI 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 15.\u201d<br \/>The government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/01\/us-government-shuts-down\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">shutdown<\/a> began on 1 October and is the first since a 35-day closure that happened in December 2018 and extended into the new year during Trump\u2019s first presidential term. There were close calls but no shutdowns during Joe Biden\u2019s presidential term.<br \/>The US president said he had identified the funds to make the payments to troops happen, adding: \u201cI will not allow the Democrats to hold our military, and the entire security of our nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous government shutdown. The radical left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/trump-shutdown-military-pay\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/abdel-fatah-al-sisi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Abdel Fatah al-Sisi<\/a>, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Egypt\u2019s Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Monday afternoon.<br \/>The meeting will take place \u201cwith the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries\u201d, the Egyptian presidency said.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/11\/donald-trump-and-abdel-fattah-al-sisi-to-chair-gaza-peace-summit\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The Democratic party is sticking to its guns on healthcare and says it is willing to hold out amid the government shutdown \u2013 much to the delight of its progressive supporters.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/republicans-democrats-us-government-shutdown\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>The national guard troops Donald Trump sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/illinois\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Illinois<\/a> can remain in the state and under federal control but cannot be deployed, an appeals court ruled on Saturday.<br \/>The appeals court granted a pause in the case until it can hear further arguments.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/national-guard-ice-memphis-tennessee-chicago-illinois\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Unpaid forced leave and mass firings are hardly the first things to spring to mind as hallmarks of a golden age of the American worker.<br \/>Yet these were the possibilities floated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> this week as he addressed a government shutdown that began on 1 October and is showing no imminent sign of ending.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/trump-impact-labor-force-workers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/>Donald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the \u201cenemy within\u201d and \u201cradical left\u201d in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"><sub class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><br \/><strong>US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Ivanka Trump, addressed a rally<\/strong> in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Witkoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/oct\/11\/israel-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-hostages-netanyahu-trump-middle-east-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68ea97118f08563c9da7722b#block-68ea97118f08563c9da7722b\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">said Israeli hostages held in Gaza were coming home<\/a>.<br \/><strong>The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will travel to Egypt on Monday<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/oct\/11\/israel-gaza-ceasefire-hamas-hostages-netanyahu-trump-middle-east-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68ea7d338f08e1d65d2a77ae#block-68ea7d338f08e1d65d2a77ae\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">talks on the peace plan presented by Donald Trump<\/a> to end the war in Gaza, the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace said.<br \/>Catching up?<em> Here\u2019s what happened on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/11\/trump-administration-news-updates-today\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">10 October<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxQU1M1REhsaE5xcFVELVdRX2t5RkVEcl9pZGJua05wZi1jZjVkWEpIcDhHYnk5c2RCT2FSZ2hQQkNGZWN5bXhTOXFVTW5sLXpuU0poNFFMUzdHUDdVUjdTNDM3QnI2eXJKTWc4N2NFTzBUU0VrNDVXeThEaTVCSFRiN0NRQU9IRGV2WjQ0eVVCOEw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump says he has directed the defence secretary to release funds on 15 October. Key US politics stories from 11 October at a glanceDonald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, to release funds.Posting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167721,"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-167720","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\/167720","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=167720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}