Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said more than 70,000 law enforcement officers across the Department of Homeland Security will be paid on October 22 for hours worked during the government shutdown.
She said officers would receive a “super check” covering “4 days lost, their overtime, and their next pay period.”
It comes after Noem said earlier this week DHS had “worked out an innovative solution” to pay members of the US Coast Guard, a branch of the armed services that falls under the department. Members of the Coast Guard were not paid the last time there was a government shutdown.
DHS is not the only agency that has said it will continue paying federal workers amid the shutdown without providing further information about where the funding was coming from.
“We got the people that we want paid, paid, and we want the FBI paid. We want the military paid,” President Donald Trump said earlier this week, adding that Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is, at the same time, “terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects.”
The funds to pay the military, meanwhile, were pulled from the Pentagon’s research and development money, according to a spokesperson for OMB. CNN has reached out to DHS and to OMB about Noem’s latest statement for more information.
