Trump plans to pay his favorite fascists during GOP shutdown

The latest lucky ducks to learn they will be paid illegally during the Republican government shutdown are the ones terrorizing immigrants. Hello, Immigration, Customs and Border Patrol agents, come on!

HuffPost got an internal Department of Homeland Security memo showing that despite the lack of federal funding, the White House ordered the agency to pay ICE, Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection agents.

The memo appears to be light on details such as “Where did this money come from?” “” and “What is the legal justification for this?” » Nevertheless, DHS assures them of “full and on-time payments” for the duration of the closure. In fact, so that the most fascist federal employees wouldn’t lose a cent, they were promised money (and back pay) no later than October 22.

If you want a better symbol of how only President Donald Trump’s favorite employees get paid, the DHS staff responsible for cutting the checks will do it. not be paid for their efforts until the shutdown ends, according to a HuffPost source.

GOOD, maybe they are paid. The administration is plotting a way to ignore the law that requires furloughed federal workers to be paid when a shutdown ends. In other words, all DHS payroll officials could have the privilege of working pro bono during the shutdown.

But who cares, right? America’s masked fascists from ICE and CBP will now join military troops, including the Coast Guardby being paid during the closure.

Is this illegal?

Folks, this is so illegal, and it’s just vibes.

Asset ordered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget to “use for pay and allowance purposes all funds appropriated by Congress that remain available for expenditures in fiscal year 2026 to accomplish the planned disbursement of military pay and allowances.”

So the president orders the Secretary of Defense to use whatever funds he wants to pay the troops, regardless of whether Congress may have appropriated those funds for other things — and, of course, regardless of whether there is a government shutdown and funding runs out.

The headlines of the New York Times are not at all there, reporting this as Trump ‘expands authority’ to spend federal money without Congress.

It’s not a thing. The president does not have this authority. He has nothing to develop. This is just pure anarchy as Trump single-handedly decides how all taxpayer dollars are spent. It’s from the same playbook that his idea of taking the revenue he made from single-handedly imposing illegal tariffs and illegally paying it back to farmers, who suffer the consequences of… his illegal tariffs. They have to vote Republican!

It’s the same impulse behind DHS demanding that airports broadcast Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s short propaganda video in which she attacks Democrats for shutting down the Republican Party.

The administration wants to link the difficulties linked to confinement to the Democrats while sparing its favorite groups any suffering.

In another new and worrying development, Trump is claims a “very rich” person offered to foot the bill and pay the troops during the shutdown.

This is arguably worse than Trump decreeing that he can ignore Congressional appropriations and funding shortfalls, and use the money as he sees fit. Linking the payment of the military to the alleged largesse of an anonymous donor is end-of-empire bullshit. The military shouldn’t be subject to the whims of a random billionaire — but that’s something Trump is currently discussing, even though he says it won’t happen.

All of these measures are aimed at shoring up the loyalty of the military and other groups favored by Trump. He, Trump, is the one who defended them, who made sure they got paid, while the Democrats kept the government paralyzed. He, Trump, kept money in their pockets, food on their table, and a roof over their family’s heads while Democrats kept the government shut down.

What wouldn’t I what do you do for a guy like that?