(AP) — Trump in his White House address suggested the payments to 1.45 million members of the military are a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues.

But that’s not really the case.

The Pentagon is distributing the checks — totaling about $2.6 billion — as one-time housing supplements, according to a senior administration official who requested anonymity to describe the payments.

That money will come from the $2.9 billion Congress provided to the Defense Department to augment existing housing allowances, as part of the tax cut extensions and expansions Trump signed into law in July.