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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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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 170 points 1 year ago

Did Greene seriously call someone out for not doing their job?

Something something projection, something, confession.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Their plan is to cry wolf first.

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[-] Infinity187@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago

The cognitive dissonance of this cunt....

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Whoa, don't call her a cunt. She doesn't have the depth or the warmth.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I'd call her a caveman but that's an insult to actual cave people, neanderthals, cro-magnon, caves, and men

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 year ago

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

[-] KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 29 points 1 year ago

Toddlers electing toddlers.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, but my 3-year-old is way more mature and better behaved than those fuckwads in Dalton.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

(Cutting a public servant's salary just encourages them to get money from elsewhere, or encourages a government run by the generationally wealthy)

[-] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

So the Republican platform in a nut shell?

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[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

*By the generationally wealthy and shamelessly corrupt

[-] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] RedditReject@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

The howler monkeys in the GOP are as serious as ever.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

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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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

To what end? I'm pretty sure we need a fucking transport secretary what with interstate commerce not being restricted.

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago

I want off Mr. bones wild ride.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I'd call Greene a fucking Harpy, but they at least did their job tormenting King Phineus

[-] brothershamus@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Warning: Clownwreck in Progress.

alarm sounds

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