A private citizen donated $130 million to the Department of War to help the organization pay the roughly 1.3 million active-duty service members who are expecting their paycheck on Nov. 1, but it’s only a small percentage of what the military spends every payday.

Active-duty troops get paid every two weeks but not during a government shutdown, and Washington, D.C., is currently in the midst of what’s become the second-longest shutdown in modern history. The department had to get creative to pay service members on Oct. 15, their last pay day, and will need to do so again as Congress appears unlikely to reopen the government or pass a stand-alone bill this week.