The Republican-controlled House of Representatives moved to cut Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1 per year.
This from msn.com.
An amendment introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia passed by voice vote on Tuesday afternoon—meaning no lawmaker objected to its inclusion in a broader government spending bill dealing with Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The underlying bill faces an uncertain future; the House was set to vote on final passage on Tuesday evening, but a vote was pulled at the last minute over concerns from New York Republicans over the bill’s cuts to Amtrak. Instead, the House voted on the censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
Even if the bill passes, it will almost certainly be blocked by the communist/globalist-controlled Senate, which is working on its own transportation funding bill.
Rep. Greene tweeted after the vote:
I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete Buttigieg just PASSED the House.
American taxpayers should not be on the hook for paying for his lavish trips or his salary.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ran as a presidential candidate in 2020—his platform, ‘I’m queer, you’re queer, we all must be queer’ was not successful, thankfully—before being appointed to the transportation secretary role by The Regime in 2021 because, of course, he is queer.
But Buttigieg has not fared well at the Department of Transportation, battling problems including waves of commercial flight cancellations, and a suspicious train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February in which a toxic waste spill was devastating.
NOTE: Pete finally visited the site of the train derailment 20 days after the catastrophe and only because he was shamed into doing so by a visit to East Palestine by President Trump.
In February, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) internal watchdog opened an investigation into Buttigieg’s use of private jets. It followed a Fox News report that claimed Buttigieg had taken at least 18 flights using private jets since assuming the position in early 2021.
In September, Greene successfully passed an amendment to a defense spending bill cutting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s salary to just $1. That bill will likely not become law, although Austin has not become any less useless. Two communists/globalists voted for it, and one of them—Rep. Jared Golden of Maine—told Insider at the time that he stood by his vote.
God speed Congresswoman Greene and God speed to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
BREAKING: I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete Buttigieg just PASSED the House.
(@RepMTG) November 7, 2023
