Posted on 11/02/2023 1:56:45 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
Can get additional money for housing, meals, without receipts confirming the bills
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
How convenient!
“F”F”F”F”!!
Rubbing salt in the wound.
Crooks and thieves.
Now they can be re-embursed like Trump. A high amount for money coming to them. A low amount reported to constituents.
Treasonous traitorous millionaires.
That's why I spell it Con-gre$$. I also use $in-ate. Anyway you say it, they're scum.
A $34,000 raise, unlimited paid perks........and all that the scumbags can steal.
It’s Good to be the King.👍
Did our new Speaker bribe his way into his job?
Did he sign off on this? Was there even a vote?
And seniors get a whoppin.... I said whoppin 3.2%.
No vote, but apparently done just before the Dems gave up their majority, slipped into the House rules—so no vote.
From a link at the link:
“As one of their last actions with their majority, Democrats quietly tucked a provision into internal House rules that grants lawmakers access to an optional $34,000 annual subsidy to pay for their Washington, D.C., housing and meal expenses”
And you can’t deprive them of havi a few drinks with meals, or at AOC’s rooftops pool
Imagine a burglar steals your stuff but is nice enough to leave you your toothbrush. Then a few days later he sends you pictures of what he did to your toothbrush while carrying off everything else. This bill is the equivalent of the toothbrush pictures.
The gift that keeps on grifting
Yet the bastards wonder why they’re almost universally despised.
so it was done a while back, but only revealed in news after R’s take control, so it looks like it happened due to R’s....how nice of the D’s.
There should be a popular vote on whether they get an increase. April 16, every four years.
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