Subject: every good dictator knows...
...you need to keep the army on your side.

Trump says administration has ‘identified funds’ to pay troops during shutdown

Trump didn’t elaborate on the amount of funds or where they would come from.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/1...

I wonder if he took advice from Michigan (L&Ses), who are adept at playing a shell game with money?

Most likely source is taking more away from the Proles.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees.

https://currently.att.yahoo.co...

Steve