Coast Guardsmen may join their sister military services in receiving a paycheck this week if a plan to divert money to payroll plays out, a Trump administration official confirmed Monday.

The Coast Guard is within the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Defense like other armed services, and is not covered by a Trump plan announced in recent days to fund Pentagon paychecks this week.

On Saturday, President Trump posted to social media that he was directing the Department of Defense to use “all available funds” to cover Oct. 15 paychecks for military members. Later that day the Pentagon announced plan to move $8 billion in “unobligated” funds to cover payments.

That left the future of Coast Guard paychecks in limbo.

But Monday, an administration official confirmed tha

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