New Delhi, March 22 -- US President Donald Trump pledged on Friday (March 21) to personally pay overtime wages for NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded in space for 286 days. Trump made the promise after learning NASA had only agreed to cover $5 per day in incidentals for the astronauts.

Speaking to Fox News, Trump appeared taken aback by the small amount NASA had allocated for the astronauts' extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

"Nobody ever mentioned this to me," Trump said. "Is that all? That's not a lot, for what they had to go through."

"If I have to, I'll pay it out of my own pocket," he added.

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