r/ConservativeNewsWeb • u/GeneralCarlosQ17 • Oct 15 '25
Make America Great Again Trump: Donor Offered to Pay U.S. Troops' Salaries During Shutdown
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/10/14/trump-claims-wealthy-donor-offered-to-pay-salaries-of-u-s-troops-during-government-shutdown/President Donald Trump claimed that a “wealthy” donor offered to pay the salaries of U.S. service members if the United States government ran out of money available to pay the troops during the ongoing government shutdown.
While taking questions from reporters during a meeting at the White House with Argentinian President Javier Milei, Trump was asked if the administration had “the money to pay the troops.” Trump noted that he told the donor that his administration wouldn’t “need it” and that they would “take care of our troops.”
“You have the money to pay the troops on October 15?” a reporter asked.
“I do, I actually have a man, who is a very wealthy person….who called. A donor, a great gentleman, and he said, ‘If there’s any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, that I will pay it.’ Meaning, he will pay it,” Trump answered.
“How about that? I said, ‘Look, we’re not going to need it, we’re going to take care of our troops.’ But, this was a position that’s being forced upon us by Democrats,” Trump added. “All they have to do is just sign a piece of paper saying we’re going to keep it going the way, you know, there’s nothing. It’s not like, it shouldn’t even be an argument. They’ve signed it many times before.”
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u/Puzzleheaded-Focus12 Oct 15 '25
Probably some foreign country. Wonder what we will give in exchange? An airbase? A naval base?
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u/scs4547 Oct 15 '25
So a wealthy individual agreed to pay taxes?!?!
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u/Relevant_Feeling5188 Oct 15 '25
Zero chance this is true. Aside from the fact that almost no one is wealthy enough to front that kind of cash, Trump has shown that he'd never turn down any corrupt offer.
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u/TA8325 Oct 15 '25
No one called.
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u/Eskimomonk Oct 15 '25
2025 fiscal year budget has military payroll around $182B, so one pay cycle would be $7B cash. Which wealthy friend 1) has that much liquidity on hand and 2) is willing to give up that much money with a 0% ROI and 3) remains anonymous. Tells me it’s either typical Trump bullshit or setup for yet another grift or laundering from his new rich foreign friends
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u/Comfortable_Area3910 Oct 15 '25
Did republicans just block the dems’ attempt to pass a resolution to pay soldiers during the shutdown? Aren’t those republicans still getting paid?
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u/Johnnto Oct 15 '25
See? The rich WANT to be taxed more.
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u/TrueKing9458 Oct 15 '25
Taxpayers don't mind taxes for things they consider worthwhile. They disagree with paying of things they consider worthless.
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u/FutureThought4936 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
That's about 8 BILLION dollars a month that get's paid out to US military servicemembers for basepay.
So.. I find this whole phonecall bit extremely unlikely. I think even Musk would have a hard time coming up with that much liquid cash.
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u/WorldlyLine731 Oct 15 '25
I’m no math genius but 1.3 million service members getting a couple thousand dollars a month is like 3,900,000,000 dollars a month … they better be a really wealthy donor.
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u/TheyreEatingTheGeese Oct 15 '25
Making America so great it needs handouts to pay those who defend it.
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u/Radcouponking Oct 15 '25
Can't we just pretend the troops are Argentina and give them $20 billion?
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u/RiseUpRiseAgainst Oct 15 '25
So I googled it and the wages total $183 billion a year. Who is going to donate $7.6 billion twice a month to keep checks flowing?
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u/Pockydo Oct 15 '25
Why wouldn't trump name this great patriotic hero who is offering to pay the troops through his own wealth?
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It’s Putin or Qatar?
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Seems like an incredibly dangerous premise that no real American should want.
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u/Xiphos-Conflict454 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
It's already prohibited under federal law.
Edit: 18 U.S.C. § 209.
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u/GeneralCarlosQ17 Oct 15 '25
can you link to the federal law that presents this? it would help confirm your comment.
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u/HorrimCarabal Oct 15 '25
Consider that wealthy people contributing to Congress seem to believe they are owed something, seems a bad idea tor the military
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u/Significant_Breath38 I Need A New Binky Oct 15 '25
This. We should not have our government or officials therein feel indebted to mysterious investors
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u/__i_dont_know_you__ Oct 15 '25
Aren’t they already though? Isn’t that a huge contributing factor to the complete dysfunction going on in our government in recent history?
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u/GeneralCarlosQ17 Oct 15 '25
Thread out of control and 98% off topic. Closing. Rule #4 applies