POLITICS

Pentagon Accepts $130M for Troop Pay Amid Shutdown

The Pentagon acknowledged receiving an anonymous $130 million gift to help cover service members’ salaries and benefits during the shutdown, accepted under its general gift acceptance authority. Chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said the donor required the funds be used for troops’ pay, and expressed gratitude. Trump, calling the donor a “patriot,” announced the contribution at the White House. Yet the sum is a fraction of the roughly $6.5 billion needed per pay cycle. In the Senate, competing measures to pay military and other workers—one GOP-backed, one from Democrats—both failed to advance.

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