{"id":2497916,"date":"2025-10-11T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-directs-hegseth-to-pay-troops-during-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:14:08","slug":"trump-directs-hegseth-to-pay-troops-during-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-directs-hegseth-to-pay-troops-during-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs Hegseth to pay troops during government shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-directs-hegseth-to-pay-troops-during-government-shutdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2497916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump ordered Pentagon Chief Pete hegseth to use all available funds to ensure that military personnel are paid on October 15, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-members-wont-take-pay-during-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"Congress members won&#039;t take ... during ...\">ongoing government shutdown<\/a> that began on October 1. Many government employees and troops have been without pay during this period,causing financial hardship for military families. Trump criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democrats for the shutdown, accusing them of holding the military and national security &#8220;hostage.&#8221; While Congress is working on the Pay Our Troops Act of 2026 to address the issue,Trump&#8217;s directive is expected to provide a faster solution but may prolong the shutdown. The funding for troop pay likely comes from existing defense budgets or mandatory funding sources. About 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-begins-discharging-service-members-declining-to-take-coronavirus-vaccine\/\" title=\"Military Begins Discharging Service Members Declining to Take Coronavirus Vaccine\">3 million active-duty service members<\/a> faced missing paychecks before this order. The Senate is not anticipated to vote on a funding bill until the following week, extending the shutdown further.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump directs Hegseth to pay troops during government shutdown<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2369599\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump <\/a>ordered Pentagon chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> to use &ldquo;all available funds&rdquo; to pay the military on Oct. 15 as the government shutdown continues.<\/p>\n<p>Many government employees, the military, and others have gone without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3846830\/trump-hints-at-new-monument-in-dc\/\">Trump hints at new monument in DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3846188\/trump-golden-age-war-on-drugs\/\">Trump overseeing &#8216;golden age&#8217; of war on drugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3846641\/trump-mass-layoffs-not-bluffing-shutdown-threats\/\">Trump mass layoffs show he isn&#8217;t bluffing on shutdown threats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Chuck Schumer recently said, &lsquo;Every day gets better&rsquo; during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of &lsquo;Leader&rsquo; Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th,&rdquo; Trump wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/115356736998906023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social post<\/a> Saturday afternoon, referring to a statement Schumer made earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3837353\/republicans-are-pushing-these-five-democrats-to-flip-on-funding-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING THESE FIVE DEMOCRATS TO FLIP ON FUNDING BILL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; he added. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; he wrote.&nbsp;&ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Congress had legislation, the Pay Our Troops Act of 2026, in the works to do the same thing. Trump&rsquo;s order will likely get the job done faster, but potentially prolong the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of troop pay is usually a pressure point for government shutdowns to end. Trump does not specify whether he would pay troops beyond Oct. 15. <\/p>\n<p>The money for the troop&rsquo;s paychecks likely comes from the Big Beautiful Bill Act&rsquo;s defense spending. The Congressional Budget Office told the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-military-pay-troops-government-shutdown-8601ea092fe746cc35b88076e70c4598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/a><\/em>  such a move was possible.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Administration also could decide to use mandatory funding provided in the 2025 reconciliation act or other sources of mandatory funding to continue activities financed by those direct appropriations at various agencies,&rdquo; CBO said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Pentagon&rsquo;s money &ldquo;could be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pay active-duty personnel<\/a> during a shutdown, thus reducing the number of expected workers who would receive delayed compensation,&rdquo; CBO wrote in a letter responding to questions from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3846685\/trump-administration-dials-up-heat-on-democrats-as-government-shutdown-set-to-enter-third-week\/\">TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DIALS UP HEAT ON DEMOCRATS AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN <strong><\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3846685\/trump-administration-dials-up-heat-on-democrats-as-government-shutdown-set-to-enter-third-week\/\">SET TO ENTER THIRD WEEK<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has around 1.3 million active-duty service members who were previously set to miss their first paycheck on Oct. 15 before Trump&rsquo;s order. Food pantries had seen an uptick in visits from military members since the shutdown began, signaling the preparation of military families for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2025\/10\/09\/food-pantry-visits-military-families-climb-over-30-government-shutdown-began.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">economic hardship.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senate is not expected to vote on a government funding bill until Tuesday of next week, guaranteeing the government shutdown lasts at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump orders Hegseth to pay troops amid shutdown crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2497918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-hegseth.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[39629,45173,65043,3634],"class_list":["post-2497916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-government-shutdown","tag-hegseth","tag-military-pay","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-hegseth.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497920,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497916\/revisions\/2497920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}