Hey Don’t Look Now But Congress Gave Their Staffers A Big Fat Raise

I hope you’re sitting down for this. 

According to that sourcelink, and this one, that gargantuan $1.5 TRILLION spending package (or tranche, as George Will referred to it) that Congress just passed includes a 21% increase in the MRA – the Member Representational Allowance.

If you’re wondering what the Member Representational Allowance is, it’s basically a line in the budget that pays for “constituent services” but the reality is it just pays Congressional staffers more of your tax money. Congressional staffers NEEDED a 21% raise, you guys.  THEY NEEDED IT MORE THAN YOU NEED IT. I mean, have you seen gas prices lately? What are those poor staffers supposed to do? Suffer with the rest of us?  Pfffft.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and that absolute clown Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries said the raise was super important because how else are the elites of Congress supposed to make sure they can recruit the best possible people to work for them?

Paraphrasing, obvs.

Here’s what their actual joint statement said:

“For months, along with a number of our colleagues, we have been advocating for Congress to raise Member Representational Allowance funding in the fiscal year 2022 legislative branch appropriations bill so that overworked and underpaid congressional staff can receive a long-overdue pay raise.  With congressional staffers moving on to more competitive opportunities after an average of just three years, creating the space for raising staff pay across the board is critical to recruiting and retaining the best and brightest to help us serve our constituents, particularly in district offices that engage most directly with them on casework and services. This will also help us recruit a more diverse workforce that reflects the American people we serve while keeping those on staff who have built up institutional knowledge essential to successful policymaking.”

See how they spin it by trying to say that the staffers’ raises will help them serve YOU?  It’s a lie, of course. Nothing they do serves you.

So while Democrat policies hurt Americans – at the pump, at the grocery store, and basically everywhere – Democrats wanna make sure that government keeps right on growing, unimpeded, by taking more of your money for themselves.

Hoyer and Jeffries have been concerned, apparently, about the fact that inflation has caused staffers to see a reduction in pay even while the cost of living increases.  AS IF THAT ISN’T HAPPENING TO EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.

Instead of implementing good policies that actually reduce inflation and make us energy independent here at home, though, they’d rather just spend more of your money and pay it to government employees.  THIS IS WHY THEY SUCK SO HARD.

Maxine Waters recently bragged about the Biden Administration’s impact on wages, saying:

“The record setting job creation we saw during the first year of the Biden Administration continues. Indeed, thanks to the American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Biden, the U.S. has had a stronger economic recovery than any other advanced economy worldwide. Wages and salaries for workers grew by 4.5% in 2021, which is the highest pay increase for workers since 1983. Importantly, these wage increases have been most significant for low-income workers.”

Hey Maxine, when salaries grow by 4.5% and the inflation rate is nearly 8 percent, do you freaking understand why that’s actually a wage reduction/tax increase, you absolute moron?  OMG.  These are the same brainiacs who are all, “Let’s just increase minimum wage to $20 because then everyone will stop being poor!”

OMFG.

Stop voting for Democrats.  Stop voting for Republicans who ACT like Democrats.

Not you.  You don’t get a raise.  Just Congress staffers.