Who gets paid in a government shutdown and who doesn’t? #CGTN

The government shutdown has left thousands of U.S. families without paychecks.
Federal workers are missing rent and food benefits for the poor are on track to be cut in November if the shutdown continues.
But not everyone is going unpaid.
ICE agents are still receiving full pay, in fact, some are getting what insiders are calling “superchecks” for bounties.
It comes down to one little-known paragraph hidden inside the 2017 Trump tax-cut law.
Buried in hundreds of pages, it created a $10-billion fund for the Department of Homeland Security, to allegedly “safeguard the border.”
Now, that same money is being reprogrammed by the White House to pay Homeland Security employees, including ICE and Border Patrol, while hundreds of thousands of other federal workers go without income.
Congress is supposed to control the nation’s spending.
But this time, the White House found a way around it, calling it “smart management.”
Critics call it a silent power grab.
And for families waiting on paychecks or food assistance, it raises a hard question:
Why do some workers keep getting paid while others are left behind?
And how does a bill’s fine print decide who eats and who doesn’t?