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[–] Nightwingdragon 40 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So if they're saying that the entirety of the 119th Congress counts as only one calendar day, they should only get paid for one calendar day. Right? Their salary would then be $476 to cover the entire two years.

That's a savings of $347,524 over the course of 2 years, per representative. Or a savings of just under $152 million. That's what it's supposed to be about, right? Saving taxpayer money? I'm sure the GOP will be on board with saving hundreds of millions of dollars! They're only working for one calendar day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Everyone only needs to pay one day of rent!

One day of car payment.

[–] Cephiroth 5 points 14 hours ago

This needs to be higher up. Obviously this isn’t how it’ll go, but it’s how it would go for a regular old American.

[–] xenomor 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, can someone tell me if this was before or after the president doubled tariffs on Canada this morning? I can’t keep up with this erratic joke of government anymore.

[–] just_another_person 14 points 14 hours ago
[–] just_another_person 21 points 14 hours ago

Your GOP representatives think they can hide in DC and do this to you and your communities as your ELECTED representative with no repercussions. Prove them wrong.

[–] ceenote 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

This cannot pass, but if gets through the House I have zero faith that Senate Democrats will stop it.

Edit: and the House passed it. If Senate Democrats had a spine, Chuck would have already pronounced it dead on arrival.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

The really unfortunate thing is that this is nothing new.

Congress, pathetic, privileged cowards that they are, has been ceding power to the executive branch for decades now, and that's a lot of what's made the Trump/Musk coup d'etat possible in the first place.

While it's especially pointed and unfortunate right now, with the presidency in the tiny hands of a raving lunatic bent on destroying democracy primarily because it stands in the way of his fragile ego's squalling need to believe that he's the bestest president ever in the history of ever, I have no doubt that if tariffs had become a sufficiently controversial subject at any point in the last few decades, Congress would've done the same, entirely regardless of specifically whose ass was warming the seat in the Oval Office.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

“Each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day”

I mean, what IS “time,” anyway, amirite?

[–] Pronell 2 points 12 hours ago

So it's the Long Night of something or other?

[–] Hobbes_Dent 1 points 14 hours ago

They’re voting their own bootstraps off?