(The Hill) -- Republican senators have questions and concerns about how President Donald Trump is managing to pay more than 1 million military service members during the government shutdown and are seeking more information about what funds he is dipping into to achieve his political ends.

Republican lawmakers are glad that active members of the military and their families around the country didn’t miss their first paychecks of the shutdown on Oct. 15, but they’re frustrated that Trump once again appears to be trampling on Congress’s power of the purse.

Traditionally, the White House must send a request to reprogram federal funding to Capitol Hill, and members of the Appropriations Committee must approve it before an administration is able to shift funds away from the programs for which t

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