Vance says troops to be paid with tariff revenue during shutdown

Vance appeared on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures to assure that President Donald Trump is “doing some pretty nonconventional things, as President Trump often does, to ensure that our troops are able to get paid.”

“A lot of this will come from incoming revenues to the Internal Revenue Service, tariff revenue, but also income tax revenue, that is going to make it possible for us to pay our troops,” Vance said. “And this is another reason why President Trump’s decisive action on tariffs is one of the reasons why we have the money in the Treasury to actually be able to pay our troops.” 

“It is one of the critical things that we’ve done, of course, to reshore America’s industrial base, to create good jobs

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