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美国政府的腐败一点也不比中国差，只是美国的腐败披着合法的外衣，让一般人看不清楚而已

今天刚到就看见了一叔的时政评论，曝光了国会的黑暗。现在让政府关门，也不能让这个祸国殃民参杂着腐败条款的法案过关。现有参议员提议让马思克当议长，如果程序有可能，到是一个很好的选择。
先祝一叔圣诞节快乐！

回复：核桃小丸子

丸子安好，快要送走2024了。2023年我的年终祝愿是：让暴风雨来得更猛烈一些吧。今年的年终祝愿是：明天会更好。等我的年终总结。

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Congress Not Proposing to Give Itself 40% Raise
By Robert Farley

Posted on December 18, 2024

Para leer en espa?ol, vea esta traducción de El Tiempo Latino.

Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead a committee to ferret out government waste, wrongly posted to X that members of Congress are trying to vote themselves a 40% raise.

A continuing resolution put forward by Republicans leading the House Appropriations Committee does attempt to allow an automatic congressional pay increase — which has drawn blowback from some members of Congress — but the maximum possible raise in 2025 would be 3.8%, not 40%.

The continuing resolution, a stopgap measure to keep the government funded for three months, needs to be enacted before midnight on Dec. 20 to avoid a government shutdown.

“How can this be called a ‘continuing resolution’ if it includes a 40% pay increase for Congress?” Musk wrote on X on Dec. 18.


Tesla CEO Elon Musk, co-chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
Musk, the Space X and Tesla CEO who along with Vivek Ramaswamy was tapped by Trump to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, linked to a post from “Wall Street Mav” that says Congress was trying to “slip by” a “pay increase for members of Congress from $174,000 to $243,000 per year.”

That’s not accurate.

The bill seeks to allow an automatic cost-of-living increase for congressional pay — which Congress has opted out of since 2009. But the Congressional Research Service said the raise would amount to 3.8% in 2025, not 40%.

It does require some legislative sleuthing to uncover that Congress has proposed a pay increase. (Bloomberg Government first reported it.) Page 15 of the proposed continuing resolution includes a sentence to strike language from a previous appropriations act that had blocked an automatic pay increase from taking effect.

Although the Constitution prescribes that members of Congress set their own compensation rate through legislation, it’s often politically unpopular for members to vote in favor of giving themselves a raise. A law passed in 1989 sought to make it easier, politically, by including an automatic annual cost-of-living pay raise tied to the Employment Cost Index (and limited by the percentage base pay increase for white-collar federal employees).


But as the Congressional Research Service explains, Congress for years has blocked those automatic pay increases from taking effect. Indeed, the pay for rank-and-file members of Congress has been frozen at $174,000 a year since 2009. (Those in leadership positions earn more.)

“If Members of Congress had received every adjustment prescribed by the ECI formula since 1992, and the statutory limitation … regarding the percentage base pay increase for [General Schedule federal] employees remained unchanged, the 2024 salary would be $243,300,” the CRS report said. (Had the automatic cost-of-living adjustments taken effect just since 2009, pay would now be $217,900, the report states.)

That is presumably where the $243,000 figure cited in the X post comes from.

But that’s not how much the continuing resolution would raise congressional pay.

As the CRS report notes, “The maximum potential January 2025 adjustment is 3.8%, which would result in a salary of $180,600, an increase of $6,600.”

Again, some legislators don’t think they should get any raise.

Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine, vowed to oppose the continuing resolution if it included a raise for members of Congress.

“Congress should be working to raise Americans’ wages and lower their health care costs, not sneaking new member perks into must-pass legislation behind closed doors,” Golden said in Dec. 18 press release. “If members can’t get by on our already generous salaries and benefits, they should find another line of work.”

But unlike Musk, Golden got the size of potential raise correct.

“Members of Congress currently earn $174,000 annually — more than 90 percent of Americans,” Golden stated. “If enacted, this CR would allow for a 2025 adjustment of 3.8 percent, which would result in a Member salary increase of $6,600.”

回复 '核桃小丸子' 的评论 : 欢迎丸子来访，这两天追剧上瘾，没忍住就写了。
今晚表决116页的节本没通过，民主党除了两个全部否决，+31个共党，议案没过，意味着政府关门。
但我觉得就是川普想要的结果，但锅共和党不能背，必须有谋略，然后猪党就上当了。那如何让部分一根筋共党或者rino不同意呢？下个套，那个100页的里延迟债务bill共党很多人抱怨说看不到细节，因此就no了，加上主党大多数否决，所以就关门了，这不是共党不让过是你执政党自己否决，所以民众的怒火去驴党那里了，哈哈高级黑。

回复 'ahhhh' 的评论 : 我最后那句看来不是多余的，呵呵

回复 'ARooibosTea' 的评论 : 这次变天了，老马要彻底透明政府系统，有老川支持，成功改革的希望很大

回复 'Q22' 的评论 : 一直这样，国家财富就被这些窃贼盗走了

回复 '石头村' 的评论 : 他是个小男人，胆小没魄力，不过有大佬撑腰，起码没反对已经不错了。

回复 '思韵如蓝' 的评论 : 今天把1500页缩减为116页，最后议案没通过，是民主党反对的，这下好了，背锅的不是共和党和老川，政府关门是执政党自己不批准。
加拿大也被左派快玩坏了，去x开个账号，去骂政客，骂的人多了他们就害怕了。

回复 'cece1007' 的评论 : 这届老川团队强大的吓人

回复 'cager812' 的评论 : 不明白你想表达什么，你觉得信息不可靠自己可以下载1500页的bill，读完再来质疑。

回复 '魅力野花' 的评论 : 不是但愿，是实实在在发生

回复 'polebear' 的评论 : 我不是老惦记川黑麻，接受意见，川黑已成历史，别招摇过市就不提了。

越过山丘，前面不是坦途，还是一步一个坑，步步小心。
过节了，先别苦大仇深的，好好放松过个年吧。
问好楼下的小熊，石头，真不容易，我们终于要送走2024。

Cager812,白纸黑字。你读不懂叫ai读也很容易。至上别人为了维护你的利益替你发声，选边站还会吧？

国会这次预算案是有文本记载的。还有不在文本草案上的。比如、议员之间为自己所在州或地县政府安争取资金、争取到了就投票支持。修改后预算案，里面的小细节往往不会被公开。议员之间官官相互勾结配合争取自身州地的利益。根本不认真考虑那些预算是必须的、是老百姓利益最大化的。

点赞一叔! 这个黑暗预算真是不要脸啊!

这是国会过去一些年的常规操作， Mike Johnson上台是的一个承诺就是要改变这种情况，不过口惠而实不至。

点赞一叔：曝光黑暗，人人有责。昨晚看了，这个暗黑预算应该是流产了。致敬信念坚定的马斯克和Vivek，也致敬所有不愿沉沦的美国人。
昨晚还看了Ben Shapiro评论加拿大保守党领袖，挺感动的。咱们的南方邻居没有忘记深陷泥潭的加拿大。这也不枉我们一帮加拿大人一直关注着美国的走向。真是远亲不如近邻，唇齿相依啊！

太气人了，还好有维维克和马斯克

都是单向的说事，没有说服力啊！

特供，特权，特罚，---，黑箱，谁知道啊？

但愿，伟大trump， 马斯克救美国

这么多年的沉疴，肯定不会自动消失，列出来大家看看也好，谢谢功课。最后一句拿掉效果会更好！