As the government shutdown grinds on, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern acknowledged that the dysfunctional Congress is “polarized” as another week of infighting and layoffs looms — as the president vowed to pay the troops.

The Worcester Democrat blamed “the Republicans” for 1.3 million active-duty military service members possibly missing a payday. But later in the day, President Donald Trump vowed, “PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to move all of the department’s “available funds” to pay the military during the shutdown, the president wrote on Truth Social. The next paycheck is due to land on Wednesday.

“I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous government shutdown,” Trump added on his pos

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