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Vance says troops to be paid with tariff revenue during shutdown

By Jenny Goldsberry
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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.”

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