Written By Lexx Thornton Active-duty military personnel will stop receiving pay by November 15th if Congress and the White House fail to reach an agreement to end the government shutdown, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned. The nearly four-week-long shutdown has already furloughed approximately 750,000 federal workers and forced hundreds of thousands of others to work without pay. To ensure the roughly 1.3 million active service members continued to receive their checks, the Trump administration resorted to exceptional measures. This involved moving existing Pentagon funds and taking the unusual step of accepting a $130 million donation from a private donor to
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