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Trump has no legal mechanism to pay the troops but he says he's doing so anyway under "my authority".
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Not paying the troops is a very common thing historically, if anything Byzantines were quite regular with payment of troops by standards of the time even troops that would not be qualified as standing or professional to be paid in most other places which is what makes late Byzantine situation exceptional.