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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is going to extraordinary — and likely illegal — measures to pay members of the US military as a federal government shutdown stretches on.

What’s happening? Today is payday for the military, and under ordinary circumstances, they would miss a paycheck for the first time ever because of the government shutdown, now in its third week. Instead, the Trump administration says it is repurposing already-appropriated Defense Department funds to pay soldiers.

What’s the context? Military pay is just one way the Trump administration is circumventing some consequences of

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