{"id":14174,"date":"2025-10-07T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-leaders-clash-on-emergency-troop-pay-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:32:25","slug":"republican-leaders-clash-on-emergency-troop-pay-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-leaders-clash-on-emergency-troop-pay-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican leaders clash on emergency troop pay vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> said the House could come back to pass emergency legislation to pay troops during the government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> wasn\u2019t willing to go there.<\/p>\n

The unusual tactical disagreement between the two top congressional leaders played out in front of cameras Tuesday on Capitol Hill as the shutdown heads into its second week.<\/p>\n

The House has been out of session as Johnson seeks to pressure Senate Democrats to approve the GOP-led stopgap funding bill his chamber already passed. But he opened the door at a Tuesday news conference to calling members back to vote on standalone legislation paying troops, who could miss paychecks on Oct. 15, or air traffic controllers, who could miss their first checks Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m certainly open to that,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done it in the past. We want to make sure that our troops are paid.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Thune \u2014 who has consistently said it\u2019s Democrats\u2019 responsibility to pass the seven-week House stopgap<\/a> \u2014 interjected after Johnson spoke, saying, \u201cHonestly, you don\u2019t need that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, there are certain constituencies \u2014 many of them are going to be impacted in a very negative way by what’s happened here,\u201d Thune said. \u201cBut the simplest way to end it is not try to exempt this group or that one or that group. It’s to get the government open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson then spoke again to say the priority should be to open the government and that Democrats could do it quickly. He added that any plan to pay members of the military would have to pass by Oct. 13 in order to process the paychecks on time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker Mike Johnson said the House could come back to pass emergency legislation to pay troops during the government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader John Thune wasn\u2019t willing to go there. The unusual tactical disagreement between the two top congressional leaders played out in front of cameras Tuesday on Capitol Hill as the shutdown heads into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}