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.
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?
I wish that were it, but I think it’s pretty clear that they want to be way more theocratic and totalitarian than that.
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.
Their plan is to destroy the United States of America as safely as they can.
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.
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.
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.
The cognitive dissonance of this cunt…
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
(Cutting a public servant’s salary just encourages them to get money from elsewhere, or encourages a government run by the generationally wealthy)
