House GOP attempts to cut Buttigieg salary to $1 via spending bill

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.

ILikeBoobies,

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)

paddirn,

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.

Infinity187,

The cognitive dissonance of this cunt…

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

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

TBi,

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,

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

darvocet,

I want off Mr. bones wild ride.

cupcakezealot,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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,

Toddlers electing toddlers.

grue,

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

charonn0,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

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.

ChrisLicht,

Finally a bipartisan issue!

RedditReject,

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,

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.

nixcamic,

Maybe just fire them all and trigger new elections

Literally what happens in most Westminster parliamentary systems if the budget doesn’t get passed. Canada’s government never shuts down but there was that one time we had elections like every 6 months.

Sarmyth,

I think that would be fun. Maybe to reduce the chaos, just have it flag everyone as non-relectable. Meaning their next election mandates new people.

brothershamus,
brothershamus avatar

Warning: Clownwreck in Progress.

alarm sounds

Zink,

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.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

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

OldWoodFrame,

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

TigrisMorte,

So the Republican platform in a nut shell?

Kerrigor,
Kerrigor avatar

Except Republicans love giving themselves raises on the public dollar

Heresy_generator,
Heresy_generator avatar

*By the generationally wealthy and shamelessly corrupt

cryptosporidium140,

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    nicetriangle,
    nicetriangle avatar

    It would have to exist in the first place to allow or disallow anything

    logicbomb,

    Hopefully, the American people will stop letting her be in congress, and she can be forgotten to the point that the Magic: The Gathering folks can have their letters back.

    Viking_Hippie,

    I prefer calling her Perjury Greene for that reason and because I watched her commit blatant perjury during the hearing to determine whether she was fit to run for re-election. In a court setting. Under oath. While it was streaming live for the entire world to see. No consequences whatsoever 🤬

    brothershamus,
    brothershamus avatar

    Not American people. republiQans in north Georgia. Yes, they're American people, but the're also dumb enough to have voted for her twice now. So. Y'know, it's not great.

    logicbomb,

    Technically, the rest of the Americans could also remove her from congress, by electing congresspeople who would remove her. But that’s even less likely than Greene being removed by direct voting.

    TigrisMorte,

    God doesn't interfere. IE not a prayer based vending machine. God gave us a "how not to make Hell on Earth" manual and we added all kinds of "empower me at the expense of others" to it.
    As regards Empty G's behavior, "I learned it from you!", where "you" is the collective Human species.

    Mo9000,

    *God doesn’t exist

    Fixed that for you

    Zorque,

    Don't cut yourself on that edge, me boy.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    Literally nothing edgy about stating that magical sky daddy is a story made up by ancient bandits.

    norbert,
    norbert avatar

    tips fedora

    Agreed sir you are a gentleman and a scholar!

    mondo_brondo,

    It’s edgy to disbelieve in something that has no factual basis?

    EmpathicVagrant,

    They probably think its equally edgy to say Santa, Buddha, Karma, Yahweh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc don’t exist. None have been proven not to exist, so by their logic they all simply MUST.

    norbert,
    norbert avatar

    Reaching pretty hard on that "logic" there.

    Needing to mention that Santa/FSM/etc doesn't exist every time it comes up is the height of edgy. Everyone knows, nobody cares cause it's rarely relevant.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    So them being fake is a given, yet your god is somehow different?

    norbert,
    norbert avatar

    No, that was my point.

    God doesn't exist, the only people who feel the need to wrap their identity around it (or lack of it) are edgelord atheists and fundamentalist Christians.

    Mo9000,

    Sorry, who exactly do you think are the perpetrators of basing their entire existence on it? The atheists…?? Fuck me, just look at what the religious right are up to in the US and then compare that with the atheists… Delusional

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    sure, but don’t equate ‘obsessed edgelords’ with people making simple factual statements online

    most atheists don’t think about religion much at all except for when it’s presented to them in the form of people making illogical claims online. at that point it’s fair to offer the contrary opinion so the people passing by the thread can make their judgement as to what is and is not crazy

    it is completely reasonable to compare santa and the tooth fairy with god because they are all mythological, which presents the question of why people treat one as sacred and the others as simple stories. it highlights the irrationality of beleiving

    Viking_Hippie,

    Flying Spaghetti Monster DOES exist! It’s proven by the inverse relationship between the number of pirates in the world, especially ones of the Caribbean that aren’t Johnny Depp, and global warming.

    Bremmy,

    Stating a fact is edgy? Lmao

    You don’t believe in 199 gods, I don’t believe in 200 gods

    If your sky daddy was the “right” one, why would he even allow all these other “false” religions to exist and cause death and chaos? Seems like a dumb ass to me if so

    meowMix2525,

    He doesn’t, all those people that believe in false gods are just damned to hell for all eternity.

    Mo9000,

    Why is that the criteria for eternal damnation? Believe in the face of a total lack of evidence, that’s the question upon which burning for ALL ETERNITY hinges on? That “God” is an evil psychopath and deserves nothing from us.

    And if his power somehow comes from our belief, then all the better to rid ourselves of that belief. But if he’s omnipotent, why does he require our belief and servitude? Seems like absolute insanity to believe in that to me.

    And those people that believe in false gods are damned just because if where they’re born? What a sick fucking god you worship.

    meowMix2525, (edited )

    We are on the same page here brother, fundies are fucking nuts. 👍

    I was pointing out that all these religions are basically playing the lottery on whose strict beliefs turn out to actually save their soul. Not to mention they could all be wrong and there is no afterlife or at least no “final judgement”. Or that the one “true” religion could not even exist yet, or it could have died off a long while ago. It’s not worth playing.

    Mo9000,

    Ah I see, sorry I misunderstood my dude! 👍

    TigrisMorte,

    Prove it, then we'll talk.

    Viking_Hippie,

    Can’t prove a negative. The burden of proof is on you to prove your absurd claim that your invisible sky daddy is real.

    brothershamus,
    brothershamus avatar

    Yeah that can't happen - BUT: it's been theorized that humans are born with the ability to language. Like, talking good be wired up in there to start. Which. I dunno, seems like something.

    Mo9000,

    I seriously question whether you even have “the ability to language”, as you so eloquently put it, this far into your life let alone be born with it.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    Seems like evidence of fucking evolution, yeah. Turns out language is favorable for survival and cooperation.

    TigrisMorte,

    And Evolution is a process which started why? Where'd all the energy come from? Seems your belief system is no less full of holes than anyone else's.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    I don’t know how the universe began because it happened 13-26 billion years before I was born. However it is fair to assume that there were some factors that we don’t understand, and it is healthy to understand the limits of our knowledge, as well as how far centuries of meticulous science has helped push our collective understanding.

    Pretending to understand all of our universe’s questions through a story made up by ancient bandits, whose answers directly contradict those we have undeniably proven through science, is just stupidity in this day and age.

    Maybe, hypothetically, there was some creature of another dimension that was able to create our universe in some kind of container. Maybe all the energy of the universe really did just appear out of nowhere. But we have no evidence, and your story is still made up.

    brothershamus,
    brothershamus avatar

    You're not wrong, you're just focused on ancient bandits. Which is cool. They suck.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    True. Yahweh was just another tribal god which represented one small group, conflicting with hundreds of similar gods, and just happened to rise to prominence which caused those with faith to write fanfiction. Highlighting the origins show the absurdity of the whole belief, and that’s why I focus on it as a talking point.

    TigrisMorte,

    You keep going after that strawman and eventually someone may question your desperation to defend your faith based theories no one cares about.

    STUPIDVIPGUY,

    I don’t have a faith, you’re projecting

    TigrisMorte,

    No, the burden of proof is upon the person making the unprovable claim. I claimed nothing.

    Just because a claim fits your bias makes it no less an unsupported belief than anyone else's unsupported belief.

    Viking_Hippie,

    Again, you can’t prove a negative whether it’s true or not. The positive claim, which is unproven and therefore to be deemed false, is the existence of your magical master being.

    Try brushing up on the nature of proof and the scientific method before you embarrass yourself further.

    TigrisMorte,

    Then it is a belief. And you can prove negatives, just not grandiose ones. I can prove there is no salt in a solution. But until I prove it, that is a belief and not a given. The fact that the scale is the entirety of Reality makes no difference in the applicable Scientific proof required from the claimant. Negativity or affirmity is irrelevant. A claim which can't be proven is a belief and nothing more.

    Try brushing up on the argument you are attempting to make. Your desperation to argue against a claim you assume I believe has you floundering. There was no positive claim. The negative claim made was made in an attempt to reinforce their weak faith by forcing it upon others. Just because your equally weak faith can't survive others not agreeing makes the negative claim no less a belief. It remains nothing more than your belief no matter how hard you stamp your feet and demand others must prove you wrong or accept your unsupported claim. Simply not how it works.

    Viking_Hippie,

    Then it is a belief.

    Or more precisely a delusion

    And you can prove negatives, just not grandiose ones

    Nope. That’s simply not how proof works. You can statistically prove something to be unlikely, but you can’t prove without a doubt that something isn’t the case.

    until I prove it, that is a belief and not a given.

    No. Not believing in your invisible sky daddy is by definition the opposite of belief. A lack of belief is a kind of belief like no car is a kind of car.

    And that’s how much I’m gonna entertain your lunacy. I was about to adress all your other falsehoods, but life’s too short to spend too much of it arguing with religious zealots who think they’re making logical sense.

    TigrisMorte,

    Your insistence upon arguing against what no one claimed is insurmountable. Perhaps when you've got enough faith in your own belief system, you'll be able to engage with others. Until then go ahead and stamp your feet all you need.

    Viking_Hippie,

    🥱

    TigrisMorte,

    Aww, so edgy.

    mindbleach,

    You claimed god exists and wrote a book, just to pick one sentence. Your initial comment is chock-full of intimate knowledge regarding the actions and motivations of an entity you offer zero justification for or evidence of.

    The difference between that and a teapot orbiting Mars is that the teapot has a predictable influence on everything on Earth.

    Zink,

    How do I tell the difference between a world with no God, and a world that has a God that uses its unbounded knowledge and power to hide its presence from us?

    TigrisMorte,

    The more important question is, "Does it matter if there is or is not a God?"

    jarfil,

    You don’t. That’s on purpose, to test your blind unwavering faith, and you won’t know your score until after you’re dead. Just follow without question whatever your spiritual leader says in order to maximize your chances… ain’t that convenient?

    TigrisMorte,

    Just like all the Atheists do. Convenient? Not really. Seems harder to believe anything unprovable than to believe things you can poke with a stick.

    rainynight65,

    “i always thought there couldn’t possibly be a God, with all the evil in the world. But perhaps… all this evil exists because there is a God. Perhaps, yes, perhaps this God just isn’t a particularly nice guy. It’s possible that God isn’t a DJ, but an arsehole.”

    “You know the saying that God created Man in His image? Well, look around. If you assume that God is an arsehole, it suddenly makes a lot of sense.”

    Freely translated from The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling

    TransplantedSconie,

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

    PizzasDontWearCapes, (edited )

    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

    rustydrd,
    @rustydrd@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Bold of you to assume that MTG’s supporters understand percentages and multiplication.

    dhork,

    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.

    docAvid,

    The Constitution specifies how much Congress critters are to be paid?

    dhork,

    No, but the Constitution does specify that they must be paid. And the 27th amendment says their pay is fixed for the term, and any legislation to change their salary can’t go into effect until after the next Federal election.

    docAvid,

    Ah yeah, I forgot about the 27th amendment, good point. So the worst they could theoretically do is cut her pay drastically, starting in 2025, assuming she still has her seat. But it’s all just posturing, nothing stops Congress from considering and voting on a bill that isn’t constitutional, and neither version of the bill will pass.

    logicbomb,

    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.

    frizop,

    Which is totally unlike what’s happening now, right?? Right?!

    SheDiceToday,

    But taxes aren’t constrained…so make an amendment to tax representatives from northern Georgia at 90% of their pay. Or something. You can’t target individual people, per the constitution, but that should be ‘general’ enough to get around it, aye?

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