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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[+] 267 points 2 years ago* (16 children)
  • [–] 126 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I keep wondering how long it will be before they have "representatives" that will literally fling poo. They already had their base smearing feces during their insurrection.

    Seems it is only a matter of time.

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  • [–] 158 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

    Something something projection, something, confession.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The cognitive dissonance of this cunt....

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [+] 44 points 2 years ago (46 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    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 🤬

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    "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

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years 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)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I want off Mr. bones wild ride.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Warning: Clownwreck in Progress.

    alarm sounds

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