Overview
- White House officials say OMB assembled roughly $5.3 billion by moving $2.5 billion from a military housing fund, $1.4 billion from Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, and $1.4 billion from a Navy procurement account to meet Friday’s payroll.
- An OMB official confirmed the transfers, and reporting noted a separate $130 million private donation to the Pentagon that covers only a small fraction of biweekly troop pay needs.
- Senior officials signaled the administration intends to keep paying the military using such reprogramming and does not plan to shift negotiating posture while troops receive pay.
- USDA programs face shortfalls, with SNAP access set to lapse for as many as 42 million people and WIC funding also running low according to administration statements.
- Two dozen states filed suit over SNAP cuts, and the federal employee union AFGE urged Congress to pass a clean continuing resolution as roughly 800,000 workers go without pay.