U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement astir lowering U.S. cause prices, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 10, 2025.
Kent Nishimura | Reuters
President Donald Trump connected Saturday said his medication has "identified funds" to wage troops adjacent week contempt the national authorities shutdown.
Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social: "I americium utilizing my authority, arsenic Commander successful Chief, to nonstop our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to usage each disposable funds to get our Troops PAID connected October 15th."
The White House didn't instantly respond to a petition for remark connected whether each oregon immoderate members of the U.S. subject would beryllium paid and which funds the authorities volition usage to wage them.
Paychecks would beryllium owed for 1.3 cardinal progressive members of the U.S. subject connected Oct. 15, raising the imaginable political costs of the impasse, immoderate economists person said.
"We judge the subject wage day connected Oct. 15 could beryllium an important forcing lawsuit for a compromise to reconstruct backing and expect the shutdown to extremity by mid-October," Goldman Sachs economists Ronnie Walker and Alec Phillips said successful a lawsuit note.
— CNBC's Jeff Cox contributed to this report.
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