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The bill preserves pay and program continuity for service members, DoD personnel, contractors, and agencies during funding gaps—protecting readiness and incomes—while shifting near-term fiscal costs and legal/oversight risks onto taxpayers and creating potential retroactive uncertainty and administrative discretion.
Active-duty service members (including reserves) continue to receive pay and allowances during any lapse in appropriations, ensuring income stability and continuity of compensation.
Federal agencies, including programs funded under this Act, retain authorities and access to funds until Congress acts or Sept 30, 2026, reducing immediate program disruption and giving agencies time to plan transitions.
Contractors performing work that supports covered service members can be paid during funding gaps, helping preserve critical logistics, readiness, and continuity of operations.
Taxpayers could ultimately absorb increased costs from interim payments and retroactive obligations (including liabilities dating back to Sept 30, 2025), raising near-term federal outlays and fiscal exposure.
Retroactive legal or compliance obligations and retroactive changes to benefits or rights (dating back to Sept 30, 2025) create legal uncertainty for individuals and entities about past actions, benefits, and liabilities.
Allowing contractors to be paid during funding lapses could lock the government into obligations without contemporaneous congressional oversight of amounts and terms, reducing immediate fiscal control.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes temporary Treasury funding to continue pay for military members, supporting civilian personnel, and contractors during any FY2026 appropriations lapse, retroactive to Sept 30, 2025.
Official title: Pay Our Military Act of 2025
Introduced October 22, 2025 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress October 22, 2025
Provides temporary Treasury funding to keep military members paid during any lapse in appropriations for fiscal year 2026, and extends similar interim pay protection to civilian DoD personnel (and Coast Guard civilian staff) and contractors the Secretaries determine are directly supporting those service members. Funds remain available only until Congress acts (either providing appropriations for the same purposes or excluding them) or until September 30, 2026, and the law is applied retroactively to September 30, 2025.