Vice President JD Vance promised Sunday that the Trump administration intends to pay the military troops despite the government shutdown.
Vance appeared on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures to assure that President Donald Trump is “doing some pretty nonconventional things, as President Trump often does, to ensure that our troops are able to get paid.”
“A lot of this will come from incoming revenues to the Internal Revenue Service, tariff revenue, but also income tax revenue, that is going to make it possible for us to pay our troops,” Vance said. “And this is another reason why President Trump’s decisive action on tariffs is one of the reasons why we have the money in the Treasury to actually be able to pay our troops.”
“It is one of the critical things that we’ve done, of course, to reshore America’s industrial base, to create good jobs in the United States of America,” Vance added. “But the tariffs have also given us a little bit of financial flexibility so that we can keep on as many essential services as possible, including, most importantly, paying the troops.”
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This TV appearance by Vance comes a day after Trump ordered War Secretary Pete Hegseth “to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th” in a Truth Social post.
“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,” Trump wrote Saturday.
TRUMP DIRECTS HEGSETH TO PAY TROOPS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
“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,” Trump added.
Hegseth shared Trump’s post to X on Saturday, writing, “President Trump delivers for the troops.”
