SHUTDOWN Act would impose daily tax on lawmakers during government closure
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FOX first: A Senate Republican wants to make MPs feel the pain in their wallets while the closure of the federal government continues.
Unlike other federal employees, the members of the congress are guaranteed to receive payments during the closure of the government. However, Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, wants to apply taxes to food deputies in salary checks.
Moreno plans to stop holding taxpayers, and to reject wages that will create a new tax for MPs, especially in Washington’s neglect (closure) law.
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Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, deputies pity the closure of the government. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
The closure proceeded to a third day without a clear ramp. The Senate is preparing to vote for the short -term financing extension of GOP on Friday, but the Senate democrats are expected to prevent them again.
“Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries want to get money to close the government,” Fox News said to Digital. He said. “This is ridiculous. If the Congress can’t make a minimum naked, we don’t deserve the salary check.”
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The 1787 copy of the 1787 US Constitution, which was sold for 9 million dollars in Asheville, NC on October 17, 2024, was exhibited. (Jeffrey Collins/AP Photo)
Congress members earn 174,000 dollars an average year. This number may fluctuate depending on whether a deputy is in the leadership position. However, considering that the US Constitution requires salary, even if the government is closed, it is difficult to prevent the closure of MPs.
The article of the Constitution requires the “senators and representatives of the Constitution to receive a compensation for their services, to be determined by laws and to be paid from the US Treasury”.
Then there is a 27th change that was approved in 1992 and prevented the Congress from exceeding a law that affects the wage during the current congress period.
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Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., speaks to journalists in Capitol. (Reuters)
Moreno’s bill can survive these railings by applying a daily tax to the deputies where the members are on a session and ongoing a closure.
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Meanwhile, the probability of closing will end this week is low. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. If the Senate Democrats, led by the Senate Democrats, are strictly attached to the position of the GOP (CR) if an agreement is not made on Obamacare tax loans that do not expire.
The Senate majority leader John Thune, RS.D., plans to continue to bring the same bill last week to disintegrate the Senate Democrats. So far, only three members of the Democratic Caucus-Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev. And you. Angus King joined the Republicans to vote for the bill.
