{"id":20932,"date":"2025-10-31T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=20932"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:56:24","slug":"democrats-roll-out-new-narrative-to-win-shutdown-fight-trump-broke-law-to-pay-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=20932","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Roll Out New Narrative to \u2018Win\u2019 Shutdown Fight: \u2018Trump Broke Law To Pay Troops\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the nation heads into its second month without government funding, President Trump has once again pulled off what the career politicians in Washington said couldn\u2019t be done. While Democrats continue to play political games with the livelihoods of federal workers, Trump found a way to make sure America\u2019s military\u2014the men and women who actually keep this country safe\u2014get paid on time and in full<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to an official with the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Trump administration will ensure that military personnel receive their paychecks on Friday by using a combination of legislative and Defense Department funds.<\/em><\/p>\n

This marks the second time the administration has stepped in to protect service members\u2019 pay during the Schumer Shutdown, now dragging into its 30th day. Under normal circumstances, \u201cessential\u201d federal employees \u2014 including members of the armed forces \u2014 are required to work through funding lapses without pay. But unlike the bureaucrats in Washington who created this mess, Trump made sure America\u2019s troops won\u2019t suffer because of it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The message from the White House couldn\u2019t be clearer: President Trump is committed to keeping essential parts of the government running, no matter how hard Democrats try to weaponize the shutdown for political gain. While they\u2019re busy inflicting pain on everyday Americans to score points with their base, Trump is focused on protecting the people who actually keep this country functioning.<\/p>\n

Never forget what Democrats have said about this shutdown, which\u00a0they own<\/i>:<\/p>\n

SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day gets better for us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

HOUSE DEMOCRAT WHIP KATHERINE CLARK<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course there will be families that are going to suffer\u2026 but it is one of the few leverage times we have.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

HOUSE DEMOCRAT CAUCUS CHAIR PETE AGUILAR<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand this is not easy, and this is going to be painful\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you reopen the government, we lose our leverage\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT SENATOR CHRIS COONS<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Frankly this is our only moment of leverage and although a very unpleasant tool to use\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT REP. EMILIA SYKES<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that people are going to suffer if we don\u2019t open the government\u2026 And I\u2019m just going to make it as plain as possible: people will go hungry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

DEMOCRAT SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE<\/em><\/p>\n

[Shutting down the government is] \u201cthe only lever we have,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

SENATE DEMOCRAT SOURCE<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have enough votes if people were not terrified of getting the guillotine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

UNNAMED DEMOCRAT SENATOR<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019People are going to get hammered\u2019 if they vote for the House-passed bill to reopen the government.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For the record, the military has gone without pay during past shutdowns. In 1877, America\u2019s troops served five long months without a paycheck because Congress was gridlocked over Reconstruction.<\/p>\n

So you\u2019d think the left could at least acknowledge the effort President Trump is making to ensure today\u2019s soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Guardians don\u2019t face the same fate. Instead, they\u2019re whining that it\u2019s \u201cillegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, of course, when Democrats need someone to spin anti-Trump hysteria under the guise of \u201clegal analysis,\u201d they always turn to their favorite echo chamber \u2014 Lawfaremedia.org, where every creative stretch of the law somehow leads back to \u201cOrange Man Bad\u201d:<\/p>\n

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How, then, were the troops paid?<\/p>\n

The answer is troubling. To make these payments, President Trump used research and development (R&D) money that the Department of Defense had left over from last fiscal year\u2014an action that was patently illegal.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to being illegal, the move was also unnecessary. There is overwhelming support in Congress to enact legislation to pay the military. But instead of taking the legal, straightforward path to paying the troops (as in the 2013 Obama shutdown, when a law was enacted to pay the troops on the eve of the shutdown), the Trump administration opted for an illegal strategy because Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had adjourned the House of Representatives on Sept. 19, sending its members home and refusing to reopen the House for business. (Note that no action was required to pay the military during either the 1995 Clinton shutdown or the 2018-2019 Trump shutdown because in each case the defense appropriations bill had already been enacted.
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The writer \u2014 a predictable functionary of the so-called \u201cAutopen-Harris\u201d White House \u2014 peddles the usual hysteria, warning that the Republic and Western civilization itself will collapse unless Democrats inflict maximum pain on Americans.<\/p>\n

He then tries to scapegoat Speaker Mike Johnson for failing to pass a standalone bill to pay the troops \u2014 a blatant lie. The Senate did in fact see such a bill introduced,\u00a0and Democrats refused to support it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-sponsored bill Thursday to pay active-duty members of the military and other essential federal employees who have been required to work during the government shutdown.<\/em><\/p>\n

Democrats blocked the Shutdown Fairness Act of 2025, sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in a mostly party-line 54-45 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The \u2018lawfare\u2019 former Biden functionary rant continued:<\/p>\n

Across billions of dollars of impoundments, Antideficiency Act violations (including the largest in history), purpose statute violations, taking down the apportionment website (it is currently back online after a court case), and other actions, the Trump administration has seemingly undertaken the most illegal set of budgetary actions in history. Guardrails, new civil penalties, and expanded judicial standing are needed to restrain and penalize the White House\u2019s budget malfeasance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This shutdown standoff comes down to one thing \u2014 the Democrats. They were offered a clean continuing resolution to keep the government running, but that wasn\u2019t enough. By their own admission, they\u2019re using the shutdown as a weapon to make Americans suffer until they get what they want.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a constitutional crisis here, it isn\u2019t coming from the White House or Congress\u2019s Republican leadership \u2014 it\u2019s coming from the Democrats\u2019 refusal to act like responsible lawmakers. They\u2019ve become a disloyal fifth column within their own government, more interested in inflicting political and economic pain than in serving the country they claim to love.<\/p>\n

Back to the main point \u2014 I honestly hope Congressional Democrats decide to push the narrative that \u201cTrump broke the law to pay the troops.\u201d I\u2019d love to see that line plastered across television ads and social media feeds. Because once Americans realize what Democrats are actually arguing \u2014 that paying and feeding our troops is somehow wrong \u2014 the backlash will be brutal.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t thought it through. The optics of standing against the men and women who serve this country, just to score political points against Trump, will be an unmitigated disaster for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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