紐約的鄉下人
說就說真話，否則不說。
談起政治總會分為兩派，左派和右派，對於總統，又分為反川和粉川，這個已經眾人皆知，今天講一下國會腐敗，不管奧巴馬，拜登咋腐敗，美國畢竟三權分立，沒有國會通過美國也不可能腐敗到這種地步，那麽國會是怎樣腐敗的呢？
今天有個預算法案要通過，眾議院是負責批錢的，沒有國會的撥款，那些想摸油水的也沒有辦法，國會怎麽瞞天過海呢？
一句中國成語：明修棧道，暗渡陳倉。就是以革命的名義幹壞事。具體操作是這樣的，把幾十個項目打包一起批準，如果不批，就說你反人道，而且還讓你來不及看內容。
今年預算法案有1547頁，周一發給議員，周三表決，實際看法案時間隻有1天，一天看1547頁安的什麽心都知道。也就是說可能大部分議員可能根本不知道內容是啥就表決了，你不同意，就說你不批準救急金，就不給農民利益，黑不黑？
我們再看內容有啥，3800億政府運作費到三月，續簽農場1300億，救急金1000億，農民激勵100億，大橋80億，這是明麵上的，打擊不同意的議員。
後麵的才是真正要陳倉的：
給議員自己增加40%工資
600億給烏克蘭
Gain-of-function research
這不就是生物武器研究嗎？新冠就是這麽研發出來的
-Mask& Vaccine mandates
口罩疫苗強製，疫苗副作用都沒追究還要強製！好可怕，是為了重新放毒準備的嗎？
12 new biolabs
讚助禍害人實驗室
Massive Congressional Pay Raises
要臉嗎，給自己漲工資
DC Sports Stadium Funding
DC體育館基金
Congress blocking subpoenas for their data
保護議員犯罪？
Corrupt Emergency powers
這是啥玩意，誰懂？
Legal Process Quashing
又一個犯罪豁免？
Expansion of the Government Censorship Center
禁止自由發聲
Molasses Inspection Funding!
資助以色列特務機構？
Woke Term Changes ("Offender" to "Justice
Involved Individual")
是那些給國會議員犯罪比如性侵的法律支持費嗎？
Transparency in concert ticket pricing
Elimination of the word “homeless
Allowing lawmakers to opt out of Obamacare-A“Feral Swine Eradication” program
越看越氣，不翻譯了，你們自己研究。
以前不知道，現在知道了，why？老川不是一個人在戰鬥，老馬有了x，開始把這些政客暴露在陽光下，我也開了個x，曝光黑暗人人有責，為的是讓美國不變成狗屎國。
特別對川黑說一句，上麵資助項目如果你沒受益，你不反對他們就是個弱智。
先祝一叔聖誕節快樂！
丸子安好，快要送走2024了。2023年我的年終祝願是：讓暴風雨來得更猛烈一些吧。今年的年終祝願是：明天會更好。等我的年終總結。
Congress Not Proposing to Give Itself 40% Raise
By Robert Farley
Posted on December 18, 2024
Para leer en espa?ol, vea esta traducción de El Tiempo Latino.
Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead a committee to ferret out government waste, wrongly posted to X that members of Congress are trying to vote themselves a 40% raise.
A continuing resolution put forward by Republicans leading the House Appropriations Committee does attempt to allow an automatic congressional pay increase — which has drawn blowback from some members of Congress — but the maximum possible raise in 2025 would be 3.8%, not 40%.
The continuing resolution, a stopgap measure to keep the government funded for three months, needs to be enacted before midnight on Dec. 20 to avoid a government shutdown.
“How can this be called a ‘continuing resolution’ if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?” Musk wrote on X on Dec. 18.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, co-chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
Musk, the Space X and Tesla CEO who along with Vivek Ramaswamy was tapped by Trump to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, linked to a post from “Wall Street Mav” that says Congress was trying to “slip by” a “pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year.”
That’s not accurate.
The bill seeks to allow an automatic cost-of-living increase for congressional pay — which Congress has opted out of since 2009. But the Congressional Research Service said the raise would amount to 3.8% in 2025, not 40%.
It does require some legislative sleuthing to uncover that Congress has proposed a pay increase. (Bloomberg Government first reported it.) Page 15 of the proposed continuing resolution includes a sentence to strike language from a previous appropriations act that had blocked an automatic pay increase from taking effect.
Although the Constitution prescribes that members of Congress set their own compensation rate through legislation, it’s often politically unpopular for members to vote in favor of giving themselves a raise. A law passed in 1989 sought to make it easier, politically, by including an automatic annual cost-of-living pay raise tied to the Employment Cost Index (and limited by the percentage base pay increase for white-collar federal employees).
But as the Congressional Research Service explains, Congress for years has blocked those automatic pay increases from taking effect. Indeed, the pay for rank-and-file members of Congress has been frozen at $174,000 a year since 2009. (Those in leadership positions earn more.)
“If Members of Congress had received every adjustment prescribed by the ECI formula since 1992, and the statutory limitation … regarding the percentage base pay increase for [General Schedule federal] employees remained unchanged, the 2024 salary would be $243,300,” the CRS report said. (Had the automatic cost-of-living adjustments taken effect just since 2009, pay would now be $217,900, the report states.)
That is presumably where the $243,000 figure cited in the X post comes from.
But that’s not how much the continuing resolution would raise congressional pay.
As the CRS report notes, “The maximum potential January 2025 adjustment is 3.8%, which would result in a salary of $180,600, an increase of $6,600.”
Again, some legislators don’t think they should get any raise.
Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, vowed to oppose the continuing resolution if it included a raise for members of Congress.
“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 Dec. 18 press release. “If members can’t get by on our already generous salaries and benefits, they should find another line of work.”
But unlike Musk, Golden got the size of potential raise correct.
“Members of Congress currently earn $174,000 annually — more than 90 percent of Americans,” Golden stated. “If enacted, this CR would allow for a 2025 adjustment of 3.8 percent, which would result in a Member salary increase of $6,600.”
今晚表決116頁的節本沒通過，民主黨除了兩個全部否決，+31個共黨，議案沒過，意味著政府關門。
但我覺得就是川普想要的結果，但鍋共和黨不能背，必須有謀略，然後豬黨就上當了。那如何讓部分一根筋共黨或者rino不同意呢？下個套，那個100頁的裏延遲債務bill共黨很多人抱怨說看不到細節，因此就no了，加上主黨大多數否決，所以就關門了，這不是共黨不讓過是你執政黨自己否決，所以民眾的怒火去驢黨那裏了，哈哈高級黑。
加拿大也被左派快玩壞了，去x開個賬號，去罵政客，罵的人多了他們就害怕了。
過節了，先別苦大仇深的，好好放鬆過個年吧。
問好樓下的小熊，石頭，真不容易，我們終於要送走2024。
昨晚還看了Ben Shapiro評論加拿大保守黨領袖，挺感動的。咱們的南方鄰居沒有忘記深陷泥潭的加拿大。這也不枉我們一幫加拿大人一直關注著美國的走向。真是遠親不如近鄰，唇齒相依啊！
特供，特權，特罰，---，黑箱，誰知道啊？