DHS taps 'big beautiful bill' funding for Coast Guard paychecks

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Source: Roll Call

Posted October 14, 2025 at 2:59pm


​Coast Guard personnel will get paid this week despite the partial government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Noem said in a social media post on Monday that her department had come up with an “innovative solution” to pay Coast Guard personnel, which she identified as funds taken out of the GOP budget reconciliation package that backers have dubbed the “one big, beautiful bill.”

“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership and the One Big Beautiful Bill, the brave men and women of the US Coast Guard will not miss a paycheck this week as they continue to carry out their critical homeland security and military missions,” Noem wrote on the social platform X.

The Coast Guard confirmed Tuesday the payments would go out on Oct. 15 as previously scheduled before the shutdown, which began Oct.1. Bank deposits will land in accounts no later than Friday.

The DHS move follows other efforts by the Trump administration to ensure favored agencies and functions get special treatment during the shutdown. President Donald Trump said over the weekend that military personnel would be getting paid, which officials said would come from unspent research and development funds. On Tuesday, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget said “law enforcement” personnel would also be paid on schedule, though they didn’t elaborate.

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/10/14/dhs-taps-big-beautiful-bill-funding-for-coast-guard-paychecks/

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I would think any Admin/Fiscal person signing off on these illegal things would be thrown under the bus.

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1. No one is going to be thrown under the buss and none of our Senators or Representatives will challenge it in the courts.

Who wants to be tagged as the politician who went to court to prevent servicemembers from receiving their pay?

[James48]

2. Still violates the law.

The Antideficiency Act makes it a two-year felony to intentionally spend money that congress did not appropriate for that purpose.

See 31 USC 1341,1342, and 1517.

This act prohibits federal agencies from obligating or expending federal funds in advance or in excess of an appropriation, and from accepting voluntary services.

The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal employees from:

making or authorizing an expenditure from, or creating or authorizing an obligation under, any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available in the appropriation or fund unless authorized by law. 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A).
involving the government in any obligation to pay money before funds have been appropriated for that purpose, unless otherwise allowed by law. 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(B).
accepting voluntary services for the United States, or employing personal services not authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. 31 U.S.C. § 1342.
making obligations or expenditures in excess of an apportionment or reapportionment, or in excess of the amount permitted by agency regulations. 31 U.S.C. § 1517(a).
Federal employees who violate the Antideficiency Act are subject to two types of sanctions: administrative and penal. Employees may be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant, suspension from duty without pay or removal from office. In addition, employees may also be subject to fines, imprisonment, or both.

https://www.gao.gov/legal/appropriations-law/resources

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3. You're right, of course... it's illegal as hell.

But like above, what congress critter is going to vote against paying our troops... legally or illegally? And which of our military members is going to turn down the illegal money? It's just another one of those quaint laws for a democracy that no longer pertains to America any longer. Face it, we no longer live under the rule of Law. We live under the rule of the Beast. And what he says, goes; period. Perhaps one day we can right the ship, but it's not going to be anytime soon.

Meanwhile, is the head dead yet?