Military starts getting paid from odd source as shutdown hits Day 15 and rest of federal workers go without

Members of the U.S. military were due to receive their pay on Wednesday as the Trump administration and the Pentagon turn to alternate revenue streams to keep checks flowing to service members amid the now 15-day-old government shutdown.

The federal government ran out of money at midnight on October 1 after Senate Democrats blocked a continuing resolution that to keep the government open that Republicans passed.