Republicans are so confident of their lies and their supporters believing anything that comes out of their mouths that they have told Trump not to pay the military. It’s possible that they know their voters and think they are so uninformed that they will believe anything they are told.
Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on Democrats on multiple fronts as the government shutdown enters a third workweek, hoping the hardball moves can finally force a reckoning as U.S. troops face a first-ever missed paycheck.
The GOP fear is that if the military pay deadline passes without action, there will be little to stop the shutdown from continuing for several more weeks at least. Some Republicans have privately warned the White House that taking unilateral action to pay servicemembers would deprive the party of a key lever to make Democrats feel overwhelming consequences for their refusal to act on a House-passed spending bill.
The image below shows our men and women in uniform waiting, sometimes for hours, to receive free food for their families.
