Putting Money Where the Mouth Is…

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I’m still seeing progressive friends of mine all giddy and star-struck with something Ocasio-Cortez called for 3 weeks ago:

US Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be put on hold during the next government shutdown.

The US government went into a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Trump refused to sign a spending bill that did not include $5 billion for his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He had long claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall.

“It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.

“Have some integrity,” she added, calling for salaries to be furloughed for the next shutdown.

Members of the House and the Senate are paid $174,000 a year.

Representative Dan Crenshaw is skipping out on his congressional pay.  So is U.S. Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona. Who else?  More than 70 members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats:

House of Representatives

Senators

  • Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) (donating to West Virginia food banks)
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) (donating to refugee group HIAS)
  • Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) (donating to Hawaiian food banks)
  • Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada) (donating to Nevada charity)
  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) (donating to unspecified charity)
  • Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) (donating to The Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh)
  • Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) (donating to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation)
  • Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania)
  • Sen. Steve Daines (R-Montana)
  • Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) (donating to Homes For The Brave)
  • Sen. Jacky Rosen (new, D-Nevada) (donating to domestic violence survivor programs in Nevada)
  • Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) (donating to Advocates for Human Rights)
  • Sen. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota) (donating to charity, likely the North Dakota National Guard Foundation and the United Way’s Emergency Homeless Shelter in Bismarck)

Hmm…..Whose name do we not see on that list, thus far?   Someone who ran away when asked a simple and direct question.

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The US government went into a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Trump refused to sign a spending bill that did not include $5 billion for his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

That’s kind of misleading since he never got anything NOT to sign.

Like most liberals and all socialists, Alexandria expects others to pay the pain, not her.

Where is Schumer? After all, he actually shut the government down. How about Pelosi? She is KEEPING it closed though, with only $80 million, I guess she can’t afford it.

Liberals should be so proud.

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Really want to share the pain only allow them a salary equal to the lowest paid, that might be a TSA agent, and freeze all accounts, block credit cards ect….
Make them eat Michelles lunches lol

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@kitt: Notice no Waters, Jackson-Lee, Booker, Harris or Feintein. Don’t they agree with DeBlasio that the problem is that the money is in the wrong hands?

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Ocasio-Cortez (D.-N.Y.), who is now being paid a salary of $174,000 as a member of Congress, is complaining about the financial stress of securing a second apartment.

“The thing Republicans taking cheap shots forget to mention is that it’s about having trouble affording a SECOND apartment,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a Tweet sent out on Sunday.

“I live in the Bronx and work in D.C. Need spot in both,” she said.

But I recall that many, many House members lived in their Congressional offices instead of trying to keep up two homes.
In 2011 CBS News noted that 1/5th of all House freshmen lived in their offices!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-fifth-of-house-freshmen-sleep-in-offices/
Arizona Representative Paul Gosar even cooked by crockpot and microwave & toaster oven. He converted a file cabinet into storage for dishes, silverware, pots and pans.
This way he afforded college for his 3 teenagers.

She, AOC, needs to think outside her box of “apartments.” There are solutions.
And, to be a woman of her word, she MUST forego her paycheck.

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@Nan G: Well… does she want to quit? Maybe she should have thought ahead a bit.

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With the liberal Democrats running the House its gone from The House of Reprisentatives to thee House of the Rising Sun or House on Ill Reputes and liberal walking talking sewer mouthed idiots

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