The Rich ones amongst them, mostly Republicans, won’t be bothered. They did this to arm twist the poorer ones to succumb to their demands faster. Same reason they are fighting lobbying. It is not from the goodness of their heart, nothing ever is
Opee23 on
Doesn’t matter, their pay check is dwarfed by what they get from their donors
Bittererr on
It’s bad policy, straight up.
Congress hasn’t given themselves a pay raise in over 15 years and this has not affected corrupt or independently wealthy members of Congress *at all.*
The only people this actually hurts are people like AOC, younger, less established, and less corrupt members of Congress who actually use their salary to buy food and pay rent.
If this becomes law it’ll do nothing but give the rich and corrupt members of Congress even more leverage during a shutdown.
DidItForTheJokes on
If the legislature can’t do their jobs and fund the government it should lead to snap elections
afropuff9000 on
absolute horse shit. These fuckers are rich as hell and wont be bothered in the slightest.
Cultbird on
This bill really only affects progressives.
leftoverbrine on
They’re supposed to get paid because they are the ones who have to work to end the shutdown. We need provisions that they cannot work on other things or go anywhere else during a shutdown, and then obviously they can’t take money outside their paycheck, which will never happen.
The_Holy_Turnip on
Now limit their funding sources while in office to their government paycheck.
BenevolentDog on
It’s theater. Their pay should be revoked rather than suspended. This will just put their money into an account to pay them later… presumably with interest.
From_Adam on
Their salary is a fraction of what they’re paid. This is meaningless.
SGT_BlueJay on
Why has it taken this long?! Employees like the TSA and air traffic control, keep working without pay, good luck on late charges, we arent going to work but our checks still come. Time for the government to start with simple common sense like this, age limits, term limits, no lifetime position. Simple stuff like this could have avoided so much.
thrashalj on
Remember this is a step not the full solution. This must happen eventhough everyone here is correct in it will not hinder the wealthy senators. Further steps is to establish a recall protocol that bars people from servicing in any public office indefinitely if they lie, steal, cheat, launder, etc.
This process will take steps to get to the full outcome needed to get these F****** to realize they work for the people.
accountabilitycounts on
This looks good. This looks real good.
To suckers who do not understand how senators actually make a living.
platocplx on
Toothless, if they said a shutdown triggers a new election then that gives them all the reason to resolve things before a shutdown
Best-Statistician294 on
Get rid of Citizens United and suspend their health insurance/freeze assets during shutdowns. Lets see how many of these 65+ years olds members survive.
Lysol3435 on
*their official senatorial pay
They are still collecting their real paychecks
galloway188 on
Big deal… they still can trade stocks and accept bribes I mean donations hah
fotofiend on
The problem with this is the use of the word “suspend”. All it does is suspend their pay during a shutdown, but once the government reopens, they get it all in back pay. It should be worded that they lose their pay if the government shuts down, and it instead goes straight to paying down the national debt.
HitAndRun8575 on
No income on the books benefit them… it’s a no brainer for the richest amongst them to be ok with it.
sxyaustincpl on
A senator makes $174k
Every single one has a net worth far higher than someone who makes $174k in the private sector
I’m sure that is just a coincidence though
imperfekt on
Cool, how about we go after where their real salary is coming from: insider trading
codacoda74 on
Interesting twist: this hurts the ones who DON’T take big lobby money.
sugarlessdeathbear on
Meh, that’s feel good shit for the masses. Senators are independently wealthy and don’t depend on their paltry government pay. Currently 73 out of 100 have net wealth over $1 million.
tetsuko on
What a fucking empty gesture. How about every seat in the house and Senate immediately goes up for election?
Hobojoe- on
I think it should be that all house members and senator get locked inside the capitol until the shutdown ends.
CrimsonHeretic on
This just proves they don’t even need their official salaries because they get so much fucking money from lobbyists and corporate interests.
Unfortunately, the average American will see this as a good thing though.
Libercrat on
Who needs a salary when they are all making a hefty sum insider trading.
BroseppeVerdi on
It says a lot that every single member of the Senate is so loaded that they don’t give a shit if they get their $174,000 salary or not.
ButtSpelunker420 on
This is all a show. Most of their income doesn’t even come from that.
Random-Generation86 on
I think they just passed this because they’re all rich anyway and it’s embarrassing whenever its brought up they’re paid during shutdowns.
army2693 on
I’ll wait until it becomes law. I’m concerned that one of the congress people will vote it down. Until then, its just a show. “Yeah! We’re fixing congress! Aw. Someone didn’t let us fix it. Darn it. We tried.”
i_am_a_real_boy__ on
Rather see a bill that requires payroll to stay funded for any federal employees who have to work theough a shutdown.
oSamaki on
Damn. Not even fetterman…
Babylon4All on
Because the lobbyist pay them 100x more than their salary does.
McFlyyouBojo on
What they really need is a leash law. During a shutdown there should be a limit to how far off the premises they can travel. Im talking a mile, and thats for food purposes only.
HappysavageMk2 on
This is not the way to fix this issue.
The way to fix this issue is to pass a law that all sitting legislators who fail to pass a budget (everyone) gets an immediate vote of no confidence and can’t hold office anymore.
Elections happen immediatly and we get new legislators in who can do the work.
International_Soup on
Yeah but how about banning insider trading
JakeConhale on
This is bad – pay was guaranteed so as to ensure that legislation wouldn’t become a waiting game where “whoever runs out of money” first has to capitulate.
Cdub7791 on
People think pols are wage slaves like the rest of us peons, but pay stunts like this only hurt those very few number of politicians who aren’t wealthy (and almost every Senator is).
Shaman7102 on
Good now ban stock trading while in office.
eskimospy212 on
Yeah as others are saying this is a bad idea. The only thing this does is increase pressure on senators who aren’t rich to give in to ones that are.
FullSendIt17 on
I don’t think people understand how much money these people get from outside their allocated salaries, this is an absolute nothing burger
UniqueIndividual3579 on
If you really want to hurt them, ban stock trading during a shutdown. The pay is peanuts.
Gunny0201 on
This is useless performative legislation. Until they additionally ban elected public officials from trading stocks as well this is meaningless
TimeLeopard on
They should be fined.
dBlock845 on
Like they even need their paychecks lol. There are a handful of honorable ones who haven’t cashed in while in office, but a large majority are multimillionaires.
aslan_is_on_the_move on
I know this sounds good, but it will just discourage anyone who isn’t wealthy from running for office
BannedBenjaminSr on
They really should suspend their security and healthcare instead. All these dudes have money
DrewPBahlz7992 on
congressional salary is $174,000. literally none of them (not even the younger non-corrupt progressives who don’t take bribes / insider trade / etc) are struggling to pay the bills with that income.
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The Rich ones amongst them, mostly Republicans, won’t be bothered. They did this to arm twist the poorer ones to succumb to their demands faster. Same reason they are fighting lobbying. It is not from the goodness of their heart, nothing ever is
Doesn’t matter, their pay check is dwarfed by what they get from their donors
It’s bad policy, straight up.
Congress hasn’t given themselves a pay raise in over 15 years and this has not affected corrupt or independently wealthy members of Congress *at all.*
The only people this actually hurts are people like AOC, younger, less established, and less corrupt members of Congress who actually use their salary to buy food and pay rent.
If this becomes law it’ll do nothing but give the rich and corrupt members of Congress even more leverage during a shutdown.
If the legislature can’t do their jobs and fund the government it should lead to snap elections
absolute horse shit. These fuckers are rich as hell and wont be bothered in the slightest.
This bill really only affects progressives.
They’re supposed to get paid because they are the ones who have to work to end the shutdown. We need provisions that they cannot work on other things or go anywhere else during a shutdown, and then obviously they can’t take money outside their paycheck, which will never happen.
Now limit their funding sources while in office to their government paycheck.
It’s theater. Their pay should be revoked rather than suspended. This will just put their money into an account to pay them later… presumably with interest.
Their salary is a fraction of what they’re paid. This is meaningless.
Why has it taken this long?! Employees like the TSA and air traffic control, keep working without pay, good luck on late charges, we arent going to work but our checks still come. Time for the government to start with simple common sense like this, age limits, term limits, no lifetime position. Simple stuff like this could have avoided so much.
Remember this is a step not the full solution. This must happen eventhough everyone here is correct in it will not hinder the wealthy senators. Further steps is to establish a recall protocol that bars people from servicing in any public office indefinitely if they lie, steal, cheat, launder, etc.
This process will take steps to get to the full outcome needed to get these F****** to realize they work for the people.
This looks good. This looks real good.
To suckers who do not understand how senators actually make a living.
Toothless, if they said a shutdown triggers a new election then that gives them all the reason to resolve things before a shutdown
Get rid of Citizens United and suspend their health insurance/freeze assets during shutdowns. Lets see how many of these 65+ years olds members survive.
*their official senatorial pay
They are still collecting their real paychecks
Big deal… they still can trade stocks and accept bribes I mean donations hah
The problem with this is the use of the word “suspend”. All it does is suspend their pay during a shutdown, but once the government reopens, they get it all in back pay. It should be worded that they lose their pay if the government shuts down, and it instead goes straight to paying down the national debt.
No income on the books benefit them… it’s a no brainer for the richest amongst them to be ok with it.
A senator makes $174k
Every single one has a net worth far higher than someone who makes $174k in the private sector
I’m sure that is just a coincidence though
Cool, how about we go after where their real salary is coming from: insider trading
Interesting twist: this hurts the ones who DON’T take big lobby money.
Meh, that’s feel good shit for the masses. Senators are independently wealthy and don’t depend on their paltry government pay. Currently 73 out of 100 have net wealth over $1 million.
What a fucking empty gesture. How about every seat in the house and Senate immediately goes up for election?
I think it should be that all house members and senator get locked inside the capitol until the shutdown ends.
This just proves they don’t even need their official salaries because they get so much fucking money from lobbyists and corporate interests.
Unfortunately, the average American will see this as a good thing though.
Who needs a salary when they are all making a hefty sum insider trading.
It says a lot that every single member of the Senate is so loaded that they don’t give a shit if they get their $174,000 salary or not.
This is all a show. Most of their income doesn’t even come from that.
I think they just passed this because they’re all rich anyway and it’s embarrassing whenever its brought up they’re paid during shutdowns.
I’ll wait until it becomes law. I’m concerned that one of the congress people will vote it down. Until then, its just a show. “Yeah! We’re fixing congress! Aw. Someone didn’t let us fix it. Darn it. We tried.”
Rather see a bill that requires payroll to stay funded for any federal employees who have to work theough a shutdown.
Damn. Not even fetterman…
Because the lobbyist pay them 100x more than their salary does.
What they really need is a leash law. During a shutdown there should be a limit to how far off the premises they can travel. Im talking a mile, and thats for food purposes only.
This is not the way to fix this issue.
The way to fix this issue is to pass a law that all sitting legislators who fail to pass a budget (everyone) gets an immediate vote of no confidence and can’t hold office anymore.
Elections happen immediatly and we get new legislators in who can do the work.
Yeah but how about banning insider trading
This is bad – pay was guaranteed so as to ensure that legislation wouldn’t become a waiting game where “whoever runs out of money” first has to capitulate.
People think pols are wage slaves like the rest of us peons, but pay stunts like this only hurt those very few number of politicians who aren’t wealthy (and almost every Senator is).
Good now ban stock trading while in office.
Yeah as others are saying this is a bad idea. The only thing this does is increase pressure on senators who aren’t rich to give in to ones that are.
I don’t think people understand how much money these people get from outside their allocated salaries, this is an absolute nothing burger
If you really want to hurt them, ban stock trading during a shutdown. The pay is peanuts.
This is useless performative legislation. Until they additionally ban elected public officials from trading stocks as well this is meaningless
They should be fined.
Like they even need their paychecks lol. There are a handful of honorable ones who haven’t cashed in while in office, but a large majority are multimillionaires.
I know this sounds good, but it will just discourage anyone who isn’t wealthy from running for office
They really should suspend their security and healthcare instead. All these dudes have money
congressional salary is $174,000. literally none of them (not even the younger non-corrupt progressives who don’t take bribes / insider trade / etc) are struggling to pay the bills with that income.