Posted on 11/25/2019 12:34:16 PM PST by Libloather
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, will receive an $174,000 payment as part of a continuing resolution that is expected to keep the government open through Dec. 20.
The personal payment in this latest spending bill continues a long-standing practice of providing a death gratuity for a departed member’s survivors. The gratuity is usually included in the next appropriations bill following a lawmakers's death and is paid to the “next of kin” in the amount of one year’s compensation - $174,000.
The House is expected to vote on the stopgap spending measure Tuesday and the Senate later this week before the current funding bill expires Thursday. White House officials have indicated several times that President Donald Trump supports the bill, though the president himself hasn’t said so.
The families of Louise M. Slaughter and John McCain were each issued the death gratuity in recent years. The fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill included $174,000 to an heir of the late New York Democrat Louise M. Slaughter, the former House Rules chairwoman.
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What a joke. Must be nice to vote yourself gifts
Maybe to us, but I’ll bet she sees it as chump change, given their real family “business.”
By then she’ll be drawing her own paycheck.....................
Congressional Criminal Enterprise.
Look up Congressman Davy Crockett’s great speech, “Not Ours to Give.” Too bad his thinking on congressional “charity” was not adopted as the norm. The federal government loves to give away other people’s money, resulting in tens of trillions of dollars of national debt that can never be paid.
I hope that there are a lot of these payments soon.
Wow.
I remember reading his speech..
The government doesn’t have life insurance?
If the dear lady were impecunious, I would not be opposed to this. But I am guessing that she receives her husband’s congressional pension, plus survivor’s benefits from social security, plus congressional health insurance, plus life insurance (assuming there was any), plus whatever investments they had. And since this is coming from the public Treasury, I have to say that I do not think it appropriate.
Dad always said “Get in with the government”
End the tradition now. It is not like she is the widow of a soldier who died in war. He ‘s just a low level politician and she has no right to tax money. If they want to give widows a death benefit than give congress critters the right to buy into a life insurance policy like the rest of we working stiffs.
There are a lot of things to be upset about Cummings, and the apparent corruption of his widow, but this is not one of them.
What a flipping joke.
Two weeks before he died he said Trump would be elected, “over his dead body”. Things look good for November 2020
They are so generous with our money.
I’ll bet that that money was tax free as well.What a bunch of thieves.
No wonder we’re in debt up to our ears.
Now she can afford a good lawyer.
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