With the U.S. government shut down for 13 days, not only the staff of the U.S. government are facing unpaid vacation, but also the U.S. military is about to face front-line refusal. If Trump fails to collect the $7 billion in less than 2 days, there will inevitably be chaos within the U.S. military.

The U.S. government shutdown lasted 13 days.

On October 1, due to the failure to reach an agreement on the appropriations bill, the U.S. federal government shut down again after a lapse of seven years. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees directly went on unpaid leave or layoffs, and a large number of government departments were in a state of shutdown and a large number of services were suspended.

During Trump's two term of office, the government has been suspended.

Of course, all this is no stranger to Trump and the American people. The last and longest shutdown of the U.S. government occurred in 2018, during Trump's first term. At that time, the U.S. government was suspended for five weeks. During the time, more than 800,000 government employees were affected and economic losses exceeded US$10 billion.

The last government shutdown was during the Obama administration, when the Republican Party opposed Obamacare reform policy, resulting in the U.S. government shutdown for 16 days.

Republicans have repeatedly sought to abolish Obama¡¯s medical reform.

The reason for the shutdown of the U.S. government also has a great interference with Obama, in Trump's view of Obama's health insurance reform has caused the United States a huge loss, so this time in the financial allocation is intended to cut spending on health insurance, but the Democrats do not recognize, so rejected this request, and in the temporary allocation also additional conditions, must be agreed on the provisional allocation under the premise of guaranteeing health insurance expenses.

According to relevant regulations, the U.S. federal fiscal year starts on October 1 and ends on September 30 next year. In order to ensure the smooth operation of the federation, authorized budgets of various departments must be passed before October 1. Although in the past, the two parties in the United States had serious differences, but they were able to reach a common opinion at the last minute to ensure the smooth operation of the government. However, now the two parties in the United States have completely fallen apart, so no agreement has been reached until now.

In response to this situation, the U.S. government originally had a temporary appropriation method, which was used to exchange for a few months of "life renewal" so that both sides could continue to discuss. However, now the temporary appropriation bills of both sides have been rejected by the other side. Therefore, one of the current problems in the United States is how to pay these people's wages.

02 US soldiers face countdown to salary arrears

For federal employees, unpaid leave and job cuts may not be enough, as Musk initiated massive cuts and unpaid leave on the U.S. government when he served as ¡°Ministry of Government Efficiency,¡± but the impact of this funding could be great for those in the U.S. military.

Unlike federal employees, U.S. soldiers all sign long-term contracts, which makes it impossible to initiate layoffs without reason. Moreover, the U.S. military is responsible for the global security interests of the United States. With 11 aircraft carriers running short of manpower, this is also doomed. Unpaid leave is impossible. Based on the US military's annual budget of more than US$800 billion, the US military's personnel expenses account for about 10%, which means that the annual salary for these soldiers is more than US$80 billion, and the average monthly amount is about US$7 billion.

The salary of the U.S. military is paid on the 15th of every month, and now it is the 13th. That is to say, if the U.S. government cannot collect the 7 billion U.S. dollars to pay soldiers' salaries, there will be major turmoil within the U.S. military. Although it is not great to directly "rise up" and launch a rebellion, it is certain that the military morale will be unstable.

In order to attract soldiers into the United States, wages have increased year by year.

In order to alleviate the recruitment pressure, the U.S. government has been making adjustments in the salary of soldiers in recent years, and in the salary adjustment in 2025 the first soldiers have increased the salary by 14.5%, many U.S. soldiers are coming to this salary only, once they are not paid these people have no thought of "fighting for the United States".

In early October, U.S. Global Combat Command commander and Special Operations Command commander resigned, although public statements to the outside were ¡°personal and family reasons¡±, but at a time when U.S. military salaries are not coming out, it is difficult for one to not doubt whether the resignation of the two commanders has triggered dissatisfaction with Trump.

Today, the U.S. military is high-level and unstable, the technology is pursued or even lagged behind, and the "world's strongest" has been named as unrealistic, such a U.S. military that wants to "make America great again" is actually a bit difficult.

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