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  • 2019-01-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the Coast Guard Start Reselling Seized Cocaine Amid Government Shutdown? (en)
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  • When the U.S. government was forced to shut down in December 2018 over a funding dispute involving President Donald Trump's proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, some government employees were left wondering when they would receive their next paychecks. According to The Duffel Blog, a website with a military focus, the Coast Guard managed to solve this pay problem by turning to an unlikely source: cocaine. The Duffel Blog published an article on 29 December 2018 reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard was going to start reselling cocaine they had seized in order to supplement the pay of their members: This was not a genuine news article, as the Duffel Blog is a military-themed humor site whose disclaimer states that all of the site's content is satirical in nature and that none of its articles should be considered truthful: As of this writing Coast Guard members had not yet missed a paycheck, as funds were approved to pay them on 31 December 2018: (en)
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