The Dems are dug in and convinced their “health care crisis” narrative will win the day. Jeffries and Schumer keep peddling the argument while our service members, air traffic controllers, and millions of their voters go unpaid. But President Trump is a pro-military president. He supports police, fire, first responders, and every member of the armed services. And yesterday he announced that he’d instructed his Secretary of War to make sure the troops get paid.
Chuck Schumer recently said, “Every day gets better” during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of “Leader” Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. 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. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
There are approximately eight billion dollars in unobligated funds ostensibly tagged for research and development, and the President has exercised his executive authority to reallocate them to payroll.
Two questions. First, given that Democrats have voted eight times against a clean budget resolution to reopen the government, does anyone on the left have the audacity to file a lawsuit to pursue an injunction? To prevent Trump and Hegseth from moving those funds to pay the troops.
Talk about making a bad look worse.
We not only don’t want you to get paid, but we’re blocking the end around to put food on your families’ tables. I bet they want to do it, but I doubt even they are that stupid.
Second, federal budgets often leave money unallocated, especially since the Obama Era’s “the secretary shall” language. Suppose 8 billion dollars are loitering in the Pentagon’s lobby (and likely quite a bit more). In that case, it’s reasonable to suspect that Trump has his Cabinet searching for lost billions elsewhere that could be used to pay air-traffic controllers or other essential assets vulnerable to the politics of shutdowns.
With national defense and transportation “managed,” Democrats will have to continue to vote to keep everything else dark because they want to use a CR to push partisan interests that, as I keep pointing out, should be addressed during regular order in their respective budgets.
That’s the key point.
When Maggie Goodlander, Chris Pappas, Hassan, or Shaheen spout about “health care” or anything else, aren’t these all matters that should be addressed in each budget bill? Legislation you could be working on and passing each week instead of this toddler-like shutdown fit you’ve had because you didn’t want to do it as part of regular business?
Trump will fire non-essential personnel, but what’s your argument? You didn’t vote to pay them. You made it obvious who wasn’t essential. If they aren’t necessary, why do we need them when the government is “open”?
