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An Unpopular Congress that Failed to Cut Big Spending Tries giving Itself a Year-End Pay Raise – justthenews.com

A salary bump for members of Congress, who are currently paid $174,000 per year, is included in the 1,547-page spending bill that was unveiled on Tuesday night.

Is that all their yearly salary is?  For all the shenanigans these half-wits heap upon the populace, they are vastly underpaid.  Of course, they’re paid for their fuck-ups, so a pay raise from their sparse base salary of $174K yearly is certainly in order.

Congress has to pass a spending bill to keep the government funded before the end of the day on Friday. The current version is a Continuing Resolution that would last until mid-March.

Congress has voted since 2009 to block lawmakers from receiving automatic cost-of-living adjustments.

The House speaker earns $223,500 annually and the Senate majority leader makes $193,400 while other lawmakers earn $174,000 currently. The average salary in the United States is $66,621, according to the latest data from the Social Security Administration. 

Yes, but these pillars of bullshit have every right to earn two, three times more than the average American.  Look at all the lives they lay to waste with their wars, their insane laws, the poisons they promote in the name of health.  It’s a heavy load.  The average American can’t hold a candle to the antics from these professional cement heads.

A provision in the negotiated spending bill would allow the automatic pay raises to return, which could yield a $6,600 raise next year for lawmakers, according to a Congressional Research Service report from September.

According to Gallup polling, Congress has a 19% approval rating among the public. 

The low approval comes after a Republican-led House that swept to power in 2023 with promises to restore normal budgeting and large spending cuts failed to do both.

The pay raise provision in the bill has been greeted with bipartisan opposition. In addition to conservative lawmakers from the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, said he will vote against the bill if the pay raise provision stays inside ahead of the final vote.

“Congress should be working to raise Americans’ wages and lower their health care costs, not sneaking new member perks into must-pass legislation behind closed doors,” Golden said in a statement. “If members can’t get by on our already generous salaries and benefits, they should find another line of work. As long as these provisions are in the CR, I will vote against it.” 

House Speaker Mike Johnson has said the spending bill was the result of bipartisan negotiations. 

Just the News reached out to Johnson’s office and asked if he supports the salary increases for lawmakers but did not receive a response before publication. 

But Johnson is just replicating the ways of most Americans act when faced with difficult questions they’re asked to answer.  It’s like the cheating spouse, conning themselves into believing that just one more romp in the hay that they know will produce the walk of shame the next morning, or later that afternoon, that even though their inner voice keeps telling them they’re freaking degenerates of some sort and should do something about their personality disorders, it all will just magically go away if they ignore those questions, allowing them to continue to live in their happy little world of dainty bullshit, no matter who it hurts.

Thankfully, our representatives can dish out pain, misery, death and destruction by just giving a simple ‘yay’… while at work.  Screwing so many, so easily, has never been so trouble-free.

On Wednesday, the Senate passed the $895 billion 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House passed the mammoth bill last week, and it now heads to President Biden’s desk for his signature.

The spending bill passed the Senate in a vote of 85-14, easily getting the 60 votes that it needed. The NDAA primarily funds the Pentagon and includes some spending for other government agencies’ military programs. – via antiwar.com

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