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?
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That’s part of it. At least that is what the elitists that hold all the cards (fiscally) want, but there is a huge streak of racism and qtarded nonsense driving a lot of the base.
I wish that were it, but I think it’s pretty clear that they want to be way more theocratic and totalitarian than that.
Yeah, votes to deny health procedures and ban books, aren’t very small government of them.
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.
When asked to name the departments he wanted to shut down, he listed them off but couldn’t even remember the name of the DOE that he later got put in charge of.
Haha yeah. That certainly was a highlight of 2016. Even better was that one of the three was the department of education…
Their plan is to destroy the United States of America as safely as they can.
They’ve confined themselves, and far too many of their voters, that they’re saving it. Especially by forcing women to live like it’s the 1700s and let the billionaires be kings.
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.
At least a potato would keep their mouth shut.
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
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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I’d call Greene a fucking Harpy, but they at least did their job tormenting King Phineus
