Posted on 10/15/2025 5:37:14 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Nick Sortor @nicksortor 🚨 WOW! Trump says a donor offered to COVER payroll for our troops if money could not be shifted for their paychecks, as Dems use troops as pawns
What a PATRIOT.
Bi-weekly payroll for troops is around $6.6 BILLION!
It’d have to be someone like @elonmusk . Not just any billionaire could cover it!
A great gesture but would that even be legal?
It will undoubtedly be a loan, reimbursed when back pay is restored
There’s only a couple of guys that could do that and it’s probably Musk.
Troops get paid once a month, not biweekly.
It sure as hell isn’t Bill Gates!
This will put more pressure on Senate Dems.
An interest free loan....payable when covered by the Government.
Would the Dems have to approve it??
Not to worry...I think Musk will setup something for soldiers to apply for 90 day interest free loans if Trump's plan to distribute funds to cover their pay doesn't happen.
As an amateur historian, it's interesting to watch, but it should be sounding alarm bells about our level of political dysfunction.
They have the option to get it twice/month.
https://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay/military-pay-dates.html
I’m sure it does, but America’s leadership cannot distinguish between the alarm bell and the opening bell at the Stock Market.
Wow..... the Troops need to be forever grateful. THIS happened I am reminded during the days of the Revolutionary War when George Washington couldn’t pay his troops. Someone stepped forward and covered the cost...am I right?
Numbers.
Military pay is about $150 billion per year. This is 28% of department of wars discretionary budget.
Military pay is twice per month, as opposed to bi-weekly, and the $150 billion would therefore be divided by 24 for a given paycheck.
This looks like over 5 billion dollars for some individual to fund. It doesn’t look likely. Some sort of arrangement with the bank borrowing money with the donors collateral would be required, and that’s just the October 15th paycheck. It does not address October 30th or November 15th.
I think this will prove to be inconsequential because there will be no source for the next paycheck after this one and therefore no reduction in pressures to resolve the situation
No, didn’t happen then, nice someone has that type of cheese nowadays. If you serve solely for your paycheck, you are a POS anyway, but an ingenious plan by the dems to split servicemen from their CiC.
The offer was made, says the article.
Was this offer then accepted? I hope so.
For most Dems, being outsmarted in this way would be equal to having your doorbell rung, you answering the door, only to find a blazing paper bag on your front porch, you follow your natural instincts to put the blaze out by stomping on that blazing paper bag, only to discover that the bag was filled with horse(?) dung!! Silent witnesses film the entire episode for a most exquisite Gif.
Robert Morris was a wealthy merchant and financier from Pennsylvania. He used his own credit and personal fortune to fund the Continental Army when the Continental Congress had little money. He served as the Superintendent of Finance (essentially the first Treasury Secretary) from 1781 to 1784 and was crucial in keeping Washington’s army supplied during some of the hardest years of the war.
Morris also helped establish the Bank of North America in 1782, which provided the first organized national financial system for the new United States.
Seldom mentioned, Cubans helped finance the cause of American independence. A Cuban group called “Ladies of Havana” helped raise approximately 1.2 million livres for Washington’s Army - this donation funded the 1781 Yorktown campaign.
The contribution was not completely selfless; some Cubans hoped an American victory would in turn help Cuba throw off the Spanish yoke, and lead to their independence.
Washington wasn't President until 1789....6 years after the war ended (1783).
Except the $800,000 dollars that Morris furnished was pretty much worthless.
They should free up funds by firing a million bureaucrats.
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