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U.S. taxpayers will pay the salaries of thousands of Ukrainians, even as the country faces a government shutdown at the end of September.

A federal government shut down will effectively begin on October 1 if Congress isn’t able to pass a funding plan that Biden signs into law.

That would create a situation where U.S. federal employees will be waiting on paychecks, while U.S. taxpayer money will be paying the salaries of Ukrainians.

Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), said in July that around $1.2 billion in funding for Ukraine would be used to pay the salaries of more than 57,000 first responders there.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military’s activities related to Ukraine will continue in the event of a shutdown, Pentagon spokesperson Chris Sherwood told Politico on Thursday.

The Biden administration has failed to explain what Americans are getting for their money in Ukraine, Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, told 60 Minutes in an interview.

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