{"id":1165,"date":"2025-10-25T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:45:18","slug":"trump-lauds-great-patriot-who-donated-funds-to-pay-military-amid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/trump-lauds-great-patriot-who-donated-funds-to-pay-military-amid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lauds 'great patriot' who donated funds to pay military amid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Friday praised the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the Pentagon to pay service members<\/a> that missed a paycheck<\/a> Friday as the government shutdown continues into a fourth week.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s a great gentleman,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for his Asia trip. “He\u2019s a patron.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s obviously a very substantial man, and he contributed $130 million for the military in order to make up any different so he wanted to see the military get paid,” he continued. “So did I. And he\u2019s a wonderful man.”<\/p>\n

The president added that the mystery donor did not want to release his name, calling the decision “pretty unusual in the world I come from” <\/p>\n

“In the world of politics, you want your name mentioned. He doesn\u2019t,” Trump said, while noting that the donor was an American citizen and said he was “a friend.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s a great patriot,” he added.<\/p>\n

The $130 million donation was made “on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of Service members\u2019 salaries and benefits,\u201d chief Pentagon spokesperson\u00a0Sean Parnell\u00a0told The Hill in an emailed statement Friday.<\/p>\n

The donation comes after Senate Democrats blocked a bill<\/a> in a 54-45 vote that would have paid active-duty service members and other essential federal workers<\/a> despite the shutdown. Sens.\u00a0Jon Ossoff\u00a0(D-Ga.),\u00a0Raphael Warnock\u00a0(D-Ga.) and\u00a0John Fetterman\u00a0(D-Pa.) were the only Democrats who voted in favor of the measure.<\/p>\n

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), would have also guaranteed pay<\/a> for air traffic controllers<\/a>, Transportation Security Administration<\/a> (TSA) agents, park rangers, federal law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the bill “another tool for Trump to hurt federal workers and American families.” Johnson said Democrats mischaracterized the bill.<\/p>\n

Democratic Sens.\u00a0Chris Van Hollen\u00a0(Md.) and\u00a0Gary Peters\u00a0(Mich.) also introduced their own expanded version of the legislation, which would guarantee pay for all federal workers \u2014 including the military, contractors and furloughed workers, as the lapse in funding continues. <\/p>\n

Van Hollen called on the bill to be considered for a vote, but Johnson rejected it.<\/p>\n

Aside from any legislation or Department of Defense appropriations, Trump earlier this month ordered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to move “all available funds”<\/a> to go toward paying service members. Rep.\u00a0Jim Himes\u00a0(D-Conn.), in response, said that move was “probably not” legal.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think to pay the military during a shutdown would require legislation; the Speaker of the House has taken that off the table,” Himes said on Oct. 12. “So, I mean, is\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0going to say a bunch of stuff? Yes, he\u2019s going to say a bunch of stuff. But I don\u2019t see anything moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also faced pressure<\/a> earlier this month for not recalling lawmakers<\/a>, who have been gone now for over a month, to vote on a bill to secure military pay. Johnson, however, suggested the president was handling it<\/a> and argued Democrats were to blame<\/a> for not voting to reopen the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Friday praised the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the Pentagon to pay service members that missed a paycheck Friday as the government shutdown continues into a fourth week. “He\u2019s a great gentleman,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for his Asia trip. “He\u2019s a patron.” “He\u2019s obviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}