The newest fortunate geese to study they’ll be illegally paid throughout the GOP’s authorities shutdown are these terrorizing immigrants. Hey there, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol brokers, come on down!
HuffPost obtained an inside Division of Homeland Safety memo exhibiting that regardless of the federal funding lapse, the White Home has ordered the company to pay officers at ICE, Border Patrol, and Customs and Border Safety.
The memo seems to be mild on particulars like “The place is that this cash coming from?” and “What’s the authorized justification for this?” Nonetheless, DHS is making certain them “full and well timed funds” for the whole thing of the shutdown. The truth is, simply so probably the most fascistic federal workers don’t miss a cent, they’ve been promised the cash (and again pay) no later than Oct. 22.
In order for you any higher image of how solely President Donald Trump’s favourite workers are getting paid, the DHS employees required to chop checks will not be paid for his or her efforts till after the shutdown ends, in response to one HuffPost supply.
Effectively, perhaps they receives a commission. The administration is plotting a way to ignore the legislation that requires furloughed federal staff to be paid when a shutdown ends. In different phrases, all these DHS payroll people may get the privilege of working professional bono throughout the shutdown.
However who cares about them, proper? America’s masked fascists at ICE and CBP will now be a part of navy troops, together with the Coast Guard, in getting paid throughout the shutdown.
Is that this unlawful?
People, it’s so unlawful, and it’s all simply vibes.
Trump has ordered Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth to coordinate with the Workplace of Administration and Funds to “use for the aim of pay and allowances any funds appropriated by the Congress that stay obtainable for expenditure in Fiscal Yr 2026 to perform the scheduled disbursement of navy pay and allowances.”
So, the president is directing the protection secretary to make use of no matter funds he feels wish to pay the troops, no matter the truth that Congress might have appropriated these funds for different issues—and, after all, whatever the truth there’s a authorities shutdown and funding has lapsed.
The New York Instances headline writers usually are not assembly the second in any respect, reporting this as Trump “increasing his authority” to spend federal cash with out Congress.
This isn’t a factor. The president doesn’t have this authority. There’s nothing for him to increase. That is simply sheer lawlessness the place Trump is singlehandedly deciding how all tax {dollars} are spent. It’s from the identical playbook as his idea of taking the income he bought from singlehandedly imposing unlawful tariffs, and illegally shuffling it over to farmers, who’re being harm by … his unlawful tariffs. Gotta maintain them voting Republican!
It’s the identical impulse behind DHS demanding that airports present Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s little propaganda video, by which she assaults Democrats for the GOP’s shutdown.
The administration desires to tie shutdown ache to Democrats whereas saving its favored teams from any ache in any respect.
In one other new and ominous improvement, Trump is claiming a “very rich” individual provided to select up the tab and pay troops throughout the shutdown.
Arguably, that is worse than Trump decreeing he can ignore congressional appropriations and the funding lapse, and use cash nevertheless he desires. Linking the cost of the navy to the purported largesse of some unnamed donor is a few end-of-empire shit. The navy shouldn’t be beholden to the whims of a random billionaire—nevertheless it’s one thing Trump is now discussing, even when he’s saying it received’t occur.
All of those are strikes to consolidate the loyalty of the navy and different favored teams underneath Trump. He, Trump, is the one who stood up for them, who made certain they bought paid, all whereas the Democrats saved the federal government shut down. He, Trump, saved cash of their pockets and meals on their desk and a roof over their household’s heads whereas the Democrats saved the federal government shut down.
What wouldn’t you do for a man like that?
