US President Trump posted today (Beijing Time October 12): "Chuck Schumer recently said during the radical left-wing government shutdown, 'Things will get better every day.' I disagree! If nothing is done because of 'leader' Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our brave troops will not receive their deserved salaries on October 15. That's why I, as Commander-in-Chief, am using my power to instruct our War Secretary Pete Hegseth to use all available funds to pay our troops on October 15. We have identified funds for this purpose, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to pay our troops' salaries. I will not allow Democrats to hold our army and the entire country's security hostage through a dangerous government shutdown. The radical left-wing Democrats should open the government, and then we can work together to solve healthcare and many other issues they want to destroy."

[Witty] Comment: The essence of the US government shutdown crisis is the result of partisan conflict between the two parties, where both sides use the shutdown of the national machinery as a bargaining chip for political interests - the Republicans pushed an extreme budget bill, while the Democrats used procedural obstruction as retaliation. Both sides placed their party interests above public services. However, Trump unilaterally blamed Schumer, ignoring the fact that the Republicans in the Senate obstructed negotiations, and deliberately ignored his own "rich experience" of three government shutdowns during his term. The so-called "saving soldiers' wages" is actually a "political performance" to bypass Congress and divert other military funds. It not only exposes the institutional crisis of the executive branch overstepping its authority to interfere with the fiscal separation of powers, but also highlights Trump's long-standing populist rhetoric: on one hand, creating panic about the state of emergency, and on the other, demonizing Democratic opponents as "national security destroyers." At this point in American political polarization, there is no real "public instrument," just a slaughterhouse of partisan struggles.

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