U.S. Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin speaks throughout a digital assembly of the Ukraine Protection Contact Group on July 18, 2023, on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. | Supply: Win McNamee / Getty
Another day, one other occasion of GOP lawmakers taking part in round in everybody’s faces by utilizing their positions of energy to show right-wing political ideology into laws. These individuals merely don’t take their jobs severely. They’re unserious.
On Wednesday, Home Republicans accepted a measure to chop the wage of Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin right down to $1 as a result of they’re purporting to be dissatisfied with the job he’s been doing. As Navy Instances famous, it’s not a measure that may seemingly ever be signed into legislation. It received’t develop into legislation, not simply because it’s past ridiculous to suppose the best way to make America safer is to ensure the person tasked with making America safer is being paid lower than the price of peanuts—it’s simply very clearly a political stunt.
From the Instances:
As a part of debate on the fiscal 2024 protection appropriations invoice, GOP lawmakers accepted a number of comparable proposals to chop salaries for Protection Division positions they dislike.
The Pentagon’s director of range and inclusion, the pinnacle of the division’s fairness and inclusion workplace, the army’s chief range officer, and the assistant secretary of protection for readiness — a transgender lady — had been all focused with amendments that may trim their annual wage to lower than $1.
Austin, as Biden’s high civilian army chief, was lambasted by Republican lawmakers on the Home flooring Wednesday for the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the army’s current recruiting shortfalls and COVID-19 vaccine insurance policies through the pandemic.
So, first, we’re to imagine the GOP, which is vehemently anti-DEI and anti-Trans, isn’t taking part in political “Go Fish” with their legislative votes and are, as a substitute, doing their jobs to guard America? We’re to imagine this isn’t an ideological transfer, and the anti-DEI haters and anti-LGBTQ bigots simply so occur to even be going after the salaries of DEI and transgender Pentagon officers?
“Many Individuals agree: We don’t need the US’ army led by failure, inflicting us to be weak,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced, who sponsored the modification, stated. “We have to move this modification.”
Properly, now all of it is smart. It’s a Marjorie Taylor Greene factor. This is identical legislator who known as for an arbitrary and vindictive investigation in opposition to Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis, not as a result of Greene has any proof that Willis has accomplished something mistaken, however as a result of Willis is prosecuting Donald Trump beneath RICO with loads of proof that he and 18 others had accomplished loads mistaken. Sooner or later, Republicans have to admit all MTG does as a Home consultant is use her place as a bigger platform for her solely actual job: Making issues up.
It is a made-up modification for largely made-up army grievances that occur to completely line up with Republicans’ anti-Democrat speaking factors, which not often come accompanied by vital substance. And once more, for the lady who made up her personal false essential race idea definition and fictional “range” finances for Illinois colleges, and certain made up an imaginary Black good friend named “African-American Muhammad,” this type of abuse of legislative energy is simply par for the course, because it has been for Republican legislators generally.
Bear in mind when 147 Republican legislators voted to overturn a authorized election based mostly on Trump’s “huge lie”? That is simply extra of that. You know the way GOP lawmakers throughout red-state America have signed anti-CRT legal guidelines with out demonstrating any information of what CRT is or isn’t? That is simply extra of that.
However whereas the aforementioned political legislating can and does lead to actual and harmful penalties, this movement to lower Austin’s pay from greater than $221,000 per yr to $1 is simply foolish.
“You might disagree with the administration’s insurance policies, as all of us have accomplished through the years with totally different administrations. However Secretary Austin has accomplished nothing to benefit this,” stated Rep. Betty McCollumn, (D-Minnesota), and rating member of the Home Appropriations Committee’s protection panel. “There’s no want for us to make such a private, drastic assault by eliminating his pay.”
Talking of anti-CRT Republicans, it shouldn’t be misplaced on anybody that MTG is doing her newest bout of political posturing on the literal expense of America’s first Black protection secretary.
Anyway, in response to the Instances, the Home is predicted to vote on the complete protection spending invoice later this week. The Instances additionally famous that “even when it passes, a authorities shutdown beginning Sunday stays seemingly, since Home Republicans proceed to disagree with Senate Democratic leaders over federal spending ranges for a short-term authorities funding invoice.”
That’s the U.S. authorities at work, good individuals. The best nation on Earth, amirite?
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