U.S. Coast Guard members will get paid this week, even as the government remains shuttered, leveraging a bold funding workaround weeks in the making, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.
“While Democrats have played politics with military pay to fight for illegal aliens, the U.S. Coast Guard has been defending our maritime borders, stopping the flow of deadly narcotics and illegal immigration into our country, and countering America’s adversaries around the world,” Noem said in a statement.
“President Trump did not want any of our military to go without pay as a result of Democrats’ political theater, and we at DHS worked out an innovative solution to make sure that didn’t happen,” she explained.
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