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Scott Bessent: “We are paying our military today, the Pentagon went into…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 03:13

… to be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is, you know, a big title. And, you know, no kings equal no paychecks. We are paying our military today, the Pentagon went into surplus funds and we'll be able to make the paychecks. And, you know, I think the other problem now is, you know, the mainstream media. If this were Republicans who had shut down the government, there would have been screaming, there would have been examples of things going wrong. (03:13–03:25)

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Asserts that military paychecks are being covered by Pentagon surplus funds during the shutdown.

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