{"id":138196,"date":"2025-10-11T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138196"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:10:31","slug":"trump-orders-pentagon-to-use-all-available-funds-to-pay-troops-despite-shutdownunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138196","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders Pentagon to use \u2018all available funds\u2019 to pay troops despite shutdownUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has directed the Defence Department to use \u201call available funds\u201d to ensure American troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.<br \/>\nTrump said in a social media post that he was acting because \u201cour Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Republican president\u2019s action removes one of the pressure points that could have forced Congress into action, likely ensuring that the shutdown \u2013 now in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3328666\/trump-orders-pentagon-use-all-available-funds-pay-troops-despite-shutdown?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has directed the Defence Department to use \u201call available funds\u201d to ensure&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}