I will tell you this much, I absolutely loathe the people we’ve elected to office. Not all of them. But most of them – on BOTH sides of the aisle. They are just such scumbags, overall. D.C. is such a filthy, rotten town, that even if you go there with the best intentions, our stinking, rotted system takes over and sucks you in. D.C. is the darkness that snuffs out the light. So, it shouldn’t surprise you that Pelosi’s last “hurrah” as she slithered out of office, was to give those scum-suckers in Congress a raise… keep in mind, most of these people are already well-off, or come from very wealthy families. It’s truly sickening if you ask me.
The Hill reported that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Friday that the House would once again raise its staff salary cap, bringing the maximum salary up to $212,100.
“As you know, our hard-working, patriotic Congressional staffers are integral to the functioning of the House of Representatives: ensuring this institution can effectively carry out our legislative and constituent responsibilities,” Pelosi said in a Dear Colleague letter.
“To that end, we must do all we can to retain and recruit the best talent in our nation — and to build a Congressional workforce that reflects the communities we are honored to serve,” she added.
Pelosi raised the maximum salary for House staff to $199,300 last year, after more than a decade of stagnating staff salaries in the wake of the lawmaker pay freeze put in place in 2009. The salary cap was raised again in May to $203,700 to maintain parity with Senate staffers.
Following the 2021 increase in the salary cap, House staff can now make more than their lawmaker bosses. Rank-and-file members of Congress earn $174,000 a year, while members of congressional leadership earn slightly more.
Pelosi also instituted a minimum $45,000 salary for House staffers in May — the first time that Congress has had a salary floor for its staff.
Glad to see Nancy is doing what she loves most, right up until the bitter end. She’s taking care of as many elites as humanly possible.
What a sick and twisted system of government this has morphed into.
This post originally appeared on WayneDupree.com.