153 US House members and 50 US Senators are millionaires
By Common Dreams. Published 12-22-2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Reardon Convention Center in Kansas City, on July 20, 2018. Photo: Mark Dillman/flickr
US Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be put on hold during the next government shutdown.
The US government went into a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Trump refused to sign a spending bill that did not include $5 billion for his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He had long claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall.
“It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. Continue reading
