House Republicans moved to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1, as lawmakers debate spending bills ahead of the government funding deadline next week.
The salary cut for Buttigieg was put forth by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and adopted by voice vote as an amendment to the 2024 Transpiration and Housing and Urban Development spending bill.
“Pete Buttigieg doesn’t do his job. It’s all about fake photo ops and taxpayer-funded private jet trip to accept LGBTQ awards for him,” Green posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’m happy my amendment passed, but he doesn’t deserve a single penny.”
The underlying bill needs to be approved by the full House and is unlikely to be approved by the Senate.
The cognitive dissonance of this cunt…
I think it’s more of “that’s what i do so everyone else must do the same”.
They do it and believe everyone else does too.
Whoa, don’t call her a cunt. She doesn’t have the depth or the warmth.
I’d call her a caveman but that’s an insult to actual cave people, neanderthals, cro-magnon, caves, and men
worth noting that they did this but the still don’t have a budget even though the government will shut down in about two weeks if they don’t pass one, right before the holidays
Toddlers electing toddlers.
Excuse me, but my 3-year-old is way more mature and better behaved than those fuckwads in Dalton.
(Cutting a public servant’s salary just encourages them to get money from elsewhere, or encourages a government run by the generationally wealthy)
So the Republican platform in a nut shell?
Except Republicans love giving themselves raises on the public dollar
*By the generationally wealthy and shamelessly corrupt
We should have a law that says the representatives don’t get paid if they shut the government down because they can’t pass a CR.
That only hurts the less corrupt and newer Reps. It wouldn’t do anything to the long time incumbents who run all the committees because of bullshit seniority rules.
Maybe just fire them all and trigger new elections. But thinking about that for a second, the long time incumbents would just win again because voters fucking suck balls.
Maybe just fire them all and trigger new elections
Literally what happens in most Westminster parliamentary systems if the budget doesn’t get passed. Canada’s government never shuts down but there was that one time we had elections like every 6 months.
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Counter with an amendment that also reduces Greene and co’s salary to $1
Or to make a stronger point, make it 50% of their current salary so their supporters know how much money they make
Sadly, this isn’t possible, because Congressmen have their salaries guaranteed in the Constitution, and the people who oppose her positions have actually read it and take its limitations on their power seriously.
It’s not sad in general. It’s a good thing to pay our Congresspersons, because the alternative is that only rich people can afford to be Congresspeople.
Which is totally unlike what’s happening now, right?? Right?!
But taxes aren’t constrained…so make an amendment to tax representatives from northern Georgia at 90% of their pay. Or something. You can’t target individual people, per the constitution, but that should be ‘general’ enough to get around it, aye?
The Constitution specifies how much Congress critters are to be paid?
No, but the Constitution does specify that they must be paid. And the 27th amendment says their pay is fixed for the term, and any legislation to change their salary can’t go into effect until after the next Federal election.
Ah yeah, I forgot about the 27th amendment, good point. So the worst they could theoretically do is cut her pay drastically, starting in 2025, assuming she still has her seat. But it’s all just posturing, nothing stops Congress from considering and voting on a bill that isn’t constitutional, and neither version of the bill will pass.
Bold of you to assume that MTG’s supporters understand percentages and multiplication.
There’s already a mechanism for the House of Representatives to hold cabinet secretaries to account.
She’d have to read the US Constitution to know what I’m referring to, of course.
The howler monkeys in the GOP are as serious as ever.
Well I’m glad she said the quiet part out loud so that the hard-of-hearing bigots could pick up on the dog whistle. Very inclusive of her.
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I want off Mr. bones wild ride.
Surely if they care about spending so much, they’d be willing to cut their own salary and benefits, right? I mean, I’m sure whatever payoffs they’re getting more than outweight their salaries.
It’s worse
She celebrated this as her firing him (it’s not)
And claimed this would stop him from paying for private flights/security (he doesn’t, the government does)
Warning: Clownwreck in Progress.
alarm sounds
I’d call Greene a fucking Harpy, but they at least did their job tormenting King Phineus
How does a loving god let people like MTG happen?
God doesn’t interfere. IE not a prayer based vending machine. God gave us a “how not to make Hell on Earth” manual and we added all kinds of “empower me at the expense of others” to it.
As regards Empty G’s behavior, “I learned it from you!”, where “you” is the collective Human species.*God doesn’t exist
Fixed that for you
Prove it, then we’ll talk.
Can’t prove a negative. The burden of proof is on you to prove your absurd claim that your invisible sky daddy is real.
No, the burden of proof is upon the person making the unprovable claim. I claimed nothing.
Just because a claim fits your bias makes it no less an unsupported belief than anyone else’s unsupported belief.
Again, you can’t prove a negative whether it’s true or not. The positive claim, which is unproven and therefore to be deemed false, is the existence of your magical master being.
Try brushing up on the nature of proof and the scientific method before you embarrass yourself further.
Then it is a belief. And you can prove negatives, just not grandiose ones. I can prove there is no salt in a solution. But until I prove it, that is a belief and not a given. The fact that the scale is the entirety of Reality makes no difference in the applicable Scientific proof required from the claimant. Negativity or affirmity is irrelevant. A claim which can’t be proven is a belief and nothing more.
Try brushing up on the argument you are attempting to make. Your desperation to argue against a claim you assume I believe has you floundering. There was no positive claim. The negative claim made was made in an attempt to reinforce their weak faith by forcing it upon others. Just because your equally weak faith can’t survive others not agreeing makes the negative claim no less a belief. It remains nothing more than your belief no matter how hard you stamp your feet and demand others must prove you wrong or accept your unsupported claim. Simply not how it works.
Finally a bipartisan issue!
