Sunita Williams returns: Donald Trump to cover overtime pay for NASA ISS astronauts?🤔

Donald Trump suggested he might personally cover the $1,430 owed, praising Elon Musk for safely returning NASA astronauts Sunita Williams anPresident Donald Trump on Friday said he was unaware that NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore had not received overtime pay for their unexpectedly extended stay at the International Space Station (ISS). Donald Trump hinted that he might cover the overtime costs for the astronauts, who recently returned from space after staying “Nobody ever mentioned this to me. If I have to, I will pay it out of my own pocket? OK, I will get it for them," Trump said.

“Is that all? That’s not a lot. For what they had to go through,” the US president added.on the ISS for nine months.d Butch Wilmore.

Trump then thanked SpaceX’s Elon Musk for returning the astronauts – Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They returned to Earth early on Wednesday onboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which splashed down in the sea off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.