'Are these real patriots?': Trump teases most deployed division in the Army over first pay raise in years

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• President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a speech at Fort Drum in New York in which he teased soldiers over a pay increase they'll receive via a $716 billion defense spending bill. 
• The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act will give US service members a 2.6% pay raise, the first they've seen in nine years. 
• Trump at one point jokingly suggested the soldiers didn't really want a pay raise because they're too patriotic. 

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President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a speech at Fort Drum in New York in which he teased soldiers over a pay increase they'll receive via a $716 billion defense spending authorization bill. 

The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act will give US service members a 2.6% pay raise, the first they've seen in nine years. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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