{"id":492559,"date":"2025-10-12T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492559\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:11:10","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-us-troops-will-be-paid-despite-shutdown-president-claims-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492559\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: US troops will be paid despite shutdown, president claims | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> claimed he had found a way to pay US military<\/a> troops despite the federal government shutdown, saying he had instructed his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, to release funds.<\/p>\n

Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: \u201cI am using my authority, as commander-in-chief, to direct our secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our troops PAID on October 15.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government shutdown<\/a> began on 1 October and is the first since a 35-day closure that happened in December 2018 and extended into the new year during Trump\u2019s first presidential term. There were close calls but no shutdowns during Joe Biden\u2019s presidential term.<\/p>\n

Trump says military members will be paid despite shutdown<\/p>\n

The US president said he had identified the funds to make the payments to troops happen, adding: \u201cI will not allow the Democrats to hold our military, and the entire security of our nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous government shutdown. The radical left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump and Egyptian president to chair Gaza peace summit<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi<\/a>, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Egypt\u2019s Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The meeting will take place \u201cwith the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries\u201d, the Egyptian presidency said.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds<\/p>\n

The Democratic party is sticking to its guns on healthcare and says it is willing to hold out amid the government shutdown \u2013 much to the delight of its progressive supporters.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

National guard troops in Illinois can remain but not deploy yet, judge rules<\/p>\n

The national guard troops Donald Trump sent to Illinois<\/a> can remain in the state and under federal control but cannot be deployed, an appeals court ruled on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The appeals court granted a pause in the case until it can hear further arguments.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump wants to seem pro-worker \u2013 but actions suggest otherwise<\/p>\n

Unpaid forced leave and mass firings are hardly the first things to spring to mind as hallmarks of a golden age of the American worker.<\/p>\n

Yet these were the possibilities floated by Donald Trump<\/a> this week as he addressed a government shutdown that began on 1 October and is showing no imminent sign of ending.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

How Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk\u2019s killing<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the \u201cenemy within\u201d and \u201cradical left\u201d in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What else happened today:<\/p>\n

Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 10 October<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump claimed he had found a way to pay US military troops despite the federal government shutdown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-492559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115359009134857518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}