2y ago

House GOP attempts to cut Buttigieg salary to $1 via spending bill

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.

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- The gop has no plan or intent to govern. At all. How can you run a government if your entire platform is that all government is bad?
  
  They just want to cut taxes for wealthy tax cheats. That's it.
  
  Republicans: "Government doesn't work. Elect us and we'll prove it."
  
  Remember when Donald Trump appointed the guy who said he wanted to abolish the Department of Energy to be the head of the Department of Energy? Good times.
  
  Their plan is to destroy the United States of America as safely as they can.
  
  How can you run a government if your entire platform is that all government is bad?
  Despotically.
  
  They're like Ron Swanson, but without the charm, rugged intelligence, and moral compass.
- Hey now. Neurodiverse children generally still have love and kind moments. Pretty sure they could govern on better values than this.
  MTG and the rest of the idiot-caucus are straight up garbage trolls.
- MTG was reelected last year. She is exactly what her constituents want her to be.
  
  Someone who sits around all day doing fuck all except coming up with bullshit bills that are 100% guaranteed to never amount to anything.
  They could have just elected a potato and got the same result.
- I keep wondering how long it will be before they have "representatives" that will literally fling poo. They already had their base smearing feces during their insurrection.
  Seems it is only a matter of time.
- Turns out it’s an even better investment than politicans with morals. Say whatever you want but make sure you take the donor phone call before you vote.
Did Greene seriously call someone out for not doing their job?
Something something projection, something, confession.
- The people who are in committees with Greene have noted in the past that she basically doesn't attend them, unless the media is there, when she shows up just long enough to be disruptive and make the news. At which point, she leaves and they can get back to work.
  The "every accusation is a confession" quote you're referencing has never been more accurate. I don't think Greene has the mental creativity to imagine that there are any people who are doing worse things than her.
- Their plan is to cry wolf first.
- It's like when their rocket surgeons (like baby hands) actually call Democrats "fascists". Often in the same breath that they are demonizing "antifa", i.e., anti-fascists.
  
  No, we're "Anteefa", and we hold our meetings in the libraries on Wednesdays. We have cookies and juice.
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
- Hopefully, the American people will stop letting her be in congress, and she can be forgotten to the point that the Magic: The Gathering folks can have their letters back.
  
  I prefer calling her Perjury Greene for that reason and because I watched her commit blatant perjury during the hearing to determine whether she was fit to run for re-election. In a court setting. Under oath. While it was streaming live for the entire world to see. No consequences whatsoever 🤬
  
  Not American people. republiQans in north Georgia. Yes, they're American people, but the're also dumb enough to have voted for her twice now. So. Y'know, it's not great.
- It would have to exist in the first place to allow or disallow anything
- "i always thought there couldn't possibly be a God, with all the evil in the world. But perhaps... all this evil exists because there is a God. Perhaps, yes, perhaps this God just isn't a particularly nice guy. It's possible that God isn't a DJ, but an arsehole."
  "You know the saying that God created Man in His image? Well, look around. If you assume that God is an arsehole, it suddenly makes a lot of sense."
  Freely translated from The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling
- 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
  
  How do I tell the difference between a world with no God, and a world that has a God that uses its unbounded knowledge and power to hide its presence from us?
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.
  
  The Constitution specifies how much Congress critters are to be paid?
  
  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?
- Bold of you to assume that MTG's supporters understand percentages and multiplication.
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.
  
  I think that would be fun. Maybe to reduce the chaos, just have it flag everyone as non-relectable. Meaning their next election mandates new people.
  
  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.
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.
To what end? I'm pretty sure we need a fucking transport secretary what with interstate commerce not being restricted.
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
Finally a bipartisan issue!

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