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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    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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      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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        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.