President Donald Trump said that a very wealthy person offered to pay the wages for the military troops if the government shutdown continued.

The president made the comments to reporters on Tuesday as he sat next to Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House.

‘This is a position that is being forced upon us by Democrats.’

“I actually have a man who is a very wealthy person … who called — a donor, a great gentleman. And he said, ‘If there’s any money necessary, shortfall for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it,’ meaning he will pay it,” the president said. “How about that?”

But Trump said he refused the offer.

“I said, ‘Look, we’re not going to need it. We’re going to take care of our troops,'” he added. “But this was a position that’s being forced upon us by Democrats.”

Video of the president’s statement was widely circulated on social media.

Trump said in a post on Truth Social Saturday that the administration was seeking alternate methods to pay the troops.

“If nothing is done, because of ‘Leader’ Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th,” he posted. “That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.”

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem posted on social media that she had secured funding to pay the U.S. Coast Guard.

“While Democrats have played politics with military pay to fight for illegal aliens, the US Coast Guard has been defending our maritime borders, stopping the flow of deadly narcotics and illegal immigration into our country, and countering America’s adversaries around the world,” she said in part.

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“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership and the One Big Beautiful Bill,” Noem added, “the brave men and women of the US Coast Guard will not miss a paycheck this week as they continue to carry out their critical homeland security and military missions.”

Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget has reported that the federal government has laid off more than 4,000 employees during the shutdown.

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A Florida judge granted a restraining order petition Tuesday against Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida after a woman accused him of threatening to release compromising videos of her.

The restraining order was issued by a court in Columbia County, according to documents reviewed by Blaze News.

The judge found that some of Mills’ testimony was ‘difficult to comprehend and for the most part incomprehensible.’

An American beauty queen told Blaze News that she was in a romantic relationship with Mills for more than three years. Lindsey Langston, who was named Miss United States last October, said she began the secret relationship after meeting him in Nov. 2021. He told her he was going through bitter divorce proceedings, she claimed.

Langston said Mills threatened to release private and compromising images of her after she tried to end their relationship earlier this year.

“Get me his number and I can send him videos. Take care,” Mills allegedly wrote in a text that was reviewed by Blaze News.

“Am I gonna wake up one day to videos of us having sex on social media?” she said to Blaze News. “Because I know he has them, and he’s put it in writing.”

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She first filed a report about the alleged threats in July to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and later spoke with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The judge found that some of Mills’ testimony was “difficult to comprehend and for the most part incomprehensible.”

At one point, Mills tried to explain that the texts were sent in the context of people raised in the country.

“I grew up in the country,” Mills said. “You know, I grew up hunting and fishing in Perry and Mayo and things like that. We grew up with subsequently the same backgrounds. … We used to talk about how country folk are a little bit different than those up North.”

Blaze News reached out to Langston’s attorney for comment. A request for comment from Mills’ office was not immediately answered.

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The congressman has been hounded by numerous scandals and controversies, including allegations of stolen valor as well as ties to an extremist Islamist cleric.

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While watching the National Football League this week — which has announced that it will be platforming Bad Bunny as the star of the Super Bowl halftime show — BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock tuned in to the commercials and noticed something a little strange.

“What’s up with all the gay commercials during NFL games?” he asks.

The first commercial Whitlock cites is a PayPal commercial featuring actor Will Ferrell, who’s donning curlers and sitting in a bubble bath blowing bubbles.

Ferrell’s mannerisms are not only feminine, but in the commercial he talks in a high-pitched voice, yelling when someone knocks on the bathroom door and saying that this is “my time.”

And a DirectTV commercial features actors Kumail Nanjiani and Rob McElhenney wearing massive fur coats and excessive jewelry, sitting close together on a couch.

In a different version of the same commercial, Whitlock says it shows one man reaching between the legs of the other man to grab the remote.

“What are we doing?” Whitlock asks. “And you’re wondering why the NFL has booked Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime, this promotion of gender fluidity, this promotion of the LGBTQIA+ silent P crowd. It’s all over their advertising.”

“What are we doing?” he asks again, answering, “And it’s clear as day what we’re doing. They want fathers and sons, fathers and children sitting on the couch, sitting in the living room, sitting in their man caves, watching football with their sons. And they want the sons and daughters to ask, ‘What’s that?’”

“They want that question. They’re trying to force that conversation on all parents and all kids. And they’re going to promote that at the Super Bowl with this Bad Bunny gimmick. Can we just watch football without getting the gay thing shoved down our throat? Could we just watch football without the sexual stuff shoved down our throat?” he asks.

“It’s unnecessary, and it’s intentional,” he adds.

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