Surely the assumed audience for that was "elites", because surely - surely - Trump fans in the outback can't object to a living wage."Fox & Friends" weekend co-host Pete Hegseth said Sunday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) move to cap higher-level staff incomes in order to pay every member of her staff an annual salary of at least $52,000 was an example of communism and socialism.
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Ocasio-Cortez expanded on her salary commitment on Saturday, saying that "a lot of people commenting don’t know how Congressional salaries work." “Each member is given a set amount that they disburse. GOP has refused to increase budgets in years to give hard-working staff a raise, which means people helping to run the country are getting paid $30k/year,” she wrote on Twitter, adding that "low pay" is "a big reason why money in politics is a problem."
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"It’s actually socialism and communism on display," Hegseth said on weekend version of the popular Fox News program.
The Hill
Trumpanzees don't really object to $15 minimum, do they? I know they've been told that a higher minimum wage will bankrupt corporations and then where will they find work, but how deluded are they?Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, told Roll Call that salaries for the congresswoman’s office would top out at $80,000 due to the policy. The median wage for top congressional staffers is $154,634, according to a Legistorm analysis reported by USA Today last year of congressional chiefs of staffs.
Ocasio-Cortez announced in December that she would also pay her interns at least $15 an hour.
Has anyone asked whether her own salary is capped at $80,000?
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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