The newest fortunate geese to study they\u2019ll be illegally paid throughout the GOP\u2019s authorities shutdown are these terrorizing immigrants. Hey there, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol brokers, come on down!<\/span><\/p>\n HuffPost <\/span>obtained<\/span><\/a> 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The memo seems to be mild on particulars like \u201cThe place is that this cash coming from?\u201d and \u201cWhat’s the authorized justification for this?\u201d Nonetheless, DHS is making certain them \u201cfull and well timed funds\u201d for the whole thing of the shutdown. The truth is, simply so probably the most fascistic federal workers don\u2019t miss a cent, they\u2019ve been promised the cash (and again pay) no later than Oct. 22.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In order for you any higher image of how solely President Donald Trump\u2019s favourite workers are getting paid, the DHS employees required to chop checks will <\/span>not<\/em> be paid for his or her efforts till after the shutdown ends, in response to one HuffPost supply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Effectively, <\/span>perhaps<\/em> they receives a commission. The administration is plotting <\/span>a way to ignore<\/span><\/a> 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However who cares about them, proper? America\u2019s masked fascists at ICE and CBP will now be a part of navy troops, together with the <\/span>Coast Guard<\/span><\/a>, in getting paid throughout the shutdown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Is that this unlawful?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n People, it’s so unlawful, and it’s all simply vibes.<\/span><\/p>\n Trump <\/span>has ordered<\/span><\/a> Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth to coordinate with the Workplace of Administration and Funds to \u201cuse 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 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\u2014and, after all, whatever the truth there’s a authorities shutdown and funding has lapsed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The New York Instances headline writers usually are not assembly the second in any respect, <\/span>reporting this as<\/span><\/a> Trump \u201cincreasing his authority\u201d to spend federal cash with out Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n This isn’t a factor. The president doesn\u2019t have this authority. There\u2019s nothing for him to increase. That is simply sheer lawlessness the place Trump is singlehandedly deciding how all tax {dollars} are spent. It\u2019s from the identical playbook as <\/span>his idea of<\/span><\/a> taking the income he bought from singlehandedly imposing unlawful tariffs, and illegally shuffling it over to farmers, who’re being harm by \u2026 his unlawful tariffs. Gotta maintain them voting Republican!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s the identical impulse behind DHS <\/span>demanding<\/span><\/a> that airports present Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s little propaganda video, by which she assaults Democrats for the GOP\u2019s shutdown.<\/span><\/p>\n The administration desires to tie shutdown ache to Democrats whereas saving its favored teams from any ache in any respect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1487629\/large\/AP25280161605928.jpg?1760367190\" "\\"A")