House votes to prohibit DHS money from funding Mayorkas salary

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/26/24 7:04 PM ET


House Republicans on Wednesday approved a measure that would prohibit money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from funding the salary of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the latest example of GOP lawmakers targeting the embattled Cabinet head.

The House cleared an amendment — led by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — to the DHS appropriations bill for fiscal 2025 that would prevent funding allocated in the legislation from being used to pay Mayorkas’s salary.

The DHS appropriations bill, to be sure, has no chance of becoming law in its current form — including with the Mayorkas amendment — amid opposition from Senate Democrats and the White House. Republicans have nonetheless sought to include their priorities in the legislation to put themselves on stronger footing for government funding negotiations with the Senate down the road.

The push to slash Mayorkas’s salary comes after the House voted to impeach the DHS secretary in February, making him the first Cabinet official to be penalized since the 1870s. The Senate then dismissed the pair of articles in April. The vote on Biggs’s Mayorkas amendment was largely along party lines, 193-173, with 72 lawmakers not voting. Just one Republican — Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón — voted “no.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/4742179-house-dhs-money-alejandro-mayorkas-salary/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Hey this is a great idea, I can't wait until every purchase has a CEO-Pay or No option

[EAB]

17. Exactly

Is this really a precedent they want to set? Not just with characters under Trump, but I remember when Doonesbury devoted strips to just reading the names of the Reagan Administration indicted. It took days...

[AllaN01Bear]

24. 40 % wealth tax. like they do in nj. nj was able to have all student lunchs free.

[2naSalit]

2. It's like they think...

That they are peacocks with beautiful plumage to display regularly but it's actually them showing us their over-active anal sphincters and how much they can produce each moment of each day.

[wolfie001]

3. Led by a horse-faced neanderthal of a woman

[2naSalit]

4. I call her "lips"...

She and hubby form a pair known as lips and gums.

[wolfie001]

5. Good one!

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. I call her "Redneck Barbie" And Boebert is "Bang Bang Barbie." Their prototype was "Caribou Barbie."

[GreenWave]

6. I guess Mr. pee pee needs a distradtor.

[thenelm1]

7. Gee, since the Republican House was also involved in nixing the bipartisan border...

compromise, shouldn't they be refusing to accept their paychecks as well? (Like that would ever happen.)

[Botany]

10. And the Senate will shut this down how fast?

Johnson had a chance to do something about the border but shut that down @ the
request of Trump. They want the the border to be a mess.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The infestation of MAGAts in gov't is directly proportional to RWNJ propaganda networks per area.

[question everything]

12. One more example of doing everything but governing

[DiverDave]

21. Came here

To say this very thing

[AllaN01Bear]

31. foot dragging. can t . wont dont know how. if r prez in . they do it anyway. if d gets in , heaven help us.

[Martin68]

13. Such petty SOBs. Refuse to do honor their oath of office.

[KPN]

14. We really do have an enemy within ... and it's pretty much the whole frigging,

fascist right-wingnut Republican Party. We had better win big in November or this is what we have to look forward to for way too many years to come. And if we do win big, we damn well better take it to them on multiple fronts: Citizens United, SCOTUS corruption, Fairness Doctrine, a return to enforcement of anti-trust laws and real competition (between big money and little money!), the Electoral College, hell -- an amendment to fix the imbalance of 2 Senators per State, the list goes on ... and we damn well better take it to them hard!

[Eyeball_Kid]

20. Every vote for a down-ballot Republican is a vote for Trump. So...

all GOPers must be voted out. Trump insists that ALL GOPers show complete loyalty. That means that all GOPers must toe the line. And any who won't will be cast aside and punished. All GOPers are mini-Trumps. All of them. Trump demands unanimity and complete loyalty. A vote for ANY GOPer means a vote for Trump. They've diminished themselves completely to the service of Trump, who makes the election choices incredibly easy. No matter what they say, GOPers MUST do Trump's bidding. They are an extension of Trump. All of them.

[Dorn]

15. Repugs should be Mayorkas on double secret probation instead

[Farmer-Rick]

16. That sounds illegal

It's punishment after he has already served in that position. The government getting free labor.

It's like me being a new hire working for Walmart for 2 weeks. They claim to pay only after 2 weeks. And when my paycheck is due, they say never mind we won't pay you. Isn't that a labor violation?

Hmmm also sounds like an ex post facto law. You did not perform as we wanted you to, despite not telling you it woul be a cut in your pay. So now we are cutting your pay because you didn't do as the House, Biggs in particular, wanted you to do.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. GOP assholes forever

[marmar]

19. Neverending clown show.

[oasis]

22. Traitorous Andy Biggs ought to be an inmate

in federal prison right now campaigning for a better dinner menu.

[ZonkerHarris]

23. another vote taken by the GOP that doesn't help the middle class in any way.

[peppertree]

25. Sure. Republican elites say screw the middle class - we're the 'meddle class'

They feel governance should be their exclusive province, and that of their toadies' - and that only they should meddle in such things.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. extra fluf clash.

[AllaN01Bear]

26. so. how does this get roads paved bridges fixed etc? more grandstandng.

[peppertree]

29. "You little people pay taxes"

"I have another superyacht to worry about."

[AllaN01Bear]

30. so true.

[jls4561]

28. Perhaps cabinet secretaries indicted by the GQP could have their salaries paid by "gratuities".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Another idiot stunt

[AZ8theist]

33. BIGGS IS A TRAITOR THAT BELONGS IN PRISON

He was co-chair of the team plotting the terrorist attack on January 6th.

[Katcat]

34. If only it were possible to do the

Same to all gop congresspeople?

[Emile]

35. They think they're governing.