The newest fortunate geese to be taught they’ll be illegally paid in the course of 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 inner 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 “Where is this money coming from?” and “What is the legal justification for this?” Nonetheless, DHS is making certain them “full and timely payments” for everything of the shutdown. In actual fact, simply so essentially the most fascistic federal staff 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 staff are getting paid, the DHS workers required to chop checks is not going to be paid for his or her efforts till after the shutdown ends, in accordance with one HuffPost supply.
Nicely, possibly they receives a commission. The administration is plotting a technique to ignore the regulation that requires furloughed federal employees to be paid when a shutdown ends. In different phrases, all these DHS payroll of us may get the privilege of working professional bono in the course of the shutdown.
However who cares about them, proper? America’s masked fascists at ICE and CBP will now be part of navy troops, together with the Coast Guard, in getting paid in the course of the shutdown.
Is that this unlawful?
A protester is arrested by police and federal officers outdoors a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 6.
Of us, 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 purpose of pay and allowances any funds appropriated by the Congress that remain available for expenditure in Fiscal Year 2026 to accomplish the scheduled disbursement of military pay and allowances.”
So, the president is directing the protection secretary to make use of no matter funds he feels prefer to pay the troops, no matter the truth that Congress could have appropriated these funds for different issues—and, in fact, whatever the truth there’s a authorities shutdown and funding has lapsed.
The New York Occasions headline writers aren’t assembly the second in any respect, reporting this as Trump “expanding 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 thought of taking the income he received from singlehandedly imposing unlawful tariffs, and illegally shuffling it over to farmers, who’re being damage by … his unlawful tariffs. Gotta hold them voting Republican!
It’s the identical impulse behind DHS demanding that airports present Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem’s little propaganda video, through which she assaults Democrats for the GOP’s shutdown.
The administration needs 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 wealthy” individual supplied to select up the tab and pay troops in the course of the shutdown.
Arguably, that is worse than Trump decreeing he can ignore congressional appropriations and the funding lapse, and use cash nonetheless he needs. 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—but it surely’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 below Trump. He, Trump, is the one who stood up for them, who made certain they received paid, all whereas the Democrats stored the federal government shut down. He, Trump, stored cash of their pockets and meals on their desk and a roof over their household’s heads whereas the Democrats stored the federal government shut down.
What wouldn’t you do for a man like that?
