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Transportation officials also said the total cost of Buttigieg’s flights on FAA planes up to that time was about $42,000. Chao took 15 FAA flights early in the Trump administration, and the cost of just one of them, which was international, was nearly $69,000, the Post reports.
It's good both are being investigated, but definitely seems like Pete's isn't that big of a deal compared to what Republicans do
I’m not convinced it is a good thing that both are being investigated if the investigation into Buttigieg is just political smearing. HRC’s emails show the cost of abusive investigations. Investigations aren’t cost free, either monetarily or in terms of public trust in institutions. It implies he did something worth investigating, and devalues the seriousness of real investigations, like those against Trump.
When the review was announced, Buttigieg had flown on FAA planes 18 times out of 138 flights for official trips since becoming secretary early in 2021, according to The Washington Post. He takes commercial flights most of the time, and when he uses FAA aircraft, it’s usually because it’s cheaper than commercial flights, a Department of Transportation spokeswoman said.
This does not seem to be something worth investigating.
Now do Greene!
(Ew that came out wrong. Don’t “do” crazy, folks!)
I wonder if MTG has actually ever done anything for her district. She's spending all her time with all these petty, childish antics. What a loser.
Spoiler: she hasn't.
Because they have absolutely nothing better to do. /s
Because"their goddamn jobs" is such a foreign concept.
"nobody wants to work anymore."
How is that not a bill of attainder, accompanied by in-depth media confessions that it is in fact a bill of attainder?
FYI, a bill of attainder is legislation that imposes punishment on a specific person or group of people without a judicial trial
I cannot wait until she falls into obscurity. Old and wrinkled sitting at a lonely table at a flea market gun show to sign photographs and nobody is paying her any attention.
How about maybe pass a fucking budget instead of wasting time and money on this bullshit.
But all the Republicans have is performative garbage.
And this is definitely performative. The salary change would need to go through the Senate and there's no way this passes. The House Republicans know this. They just want to "own the libz" by saying they'll reduce some salaries to $1.
It's easier than actually doing work.
That would be retaliation and illegal.
She's going to make such a great washed up loser in a few years.
Already has lol
Oh, she can go down from here, my friend. Let's watch together.
They should do that with the gop ans republicans, after all they get their money thanks to bribes and companies paying them to legislate in their favor
Damn did someone tell her what transportation means or...?
These are not serious people
Isn't that less than minimum wage?
Good way to spend time as a political representative
You cannot pay people less than minimum wage.
I mean, fuck Buttigieg, but this is a pretty dangerous precedent.
Edit: c'mon people. He didn't do anything after the East Palestine disaster, he makes excuses for why we can't have high speed rail or even just a better Amtrak, and he hasn't done anything to reduce car centric design. He's the god damn secretary of transportation.
He's a McKinsey man...
The vast amount of issues with capitalism in our country can be traced back to young idiots in their 20s working for McKinsey telling CEOs the best thing they can do in any situation is layoffs is raising CEO pay.
They've also worked for pretty much every evil organization, including the Saudi government
John Oliver just did an episode on it a few weeks ago.
I mean fake outrage is fun?
At least go after the correct boogeyman.
I don't understand what you mean. He's in THE position to make changes to how this country handles transportation, and he hasn't done much of anything. He even made excuses for why trains can't have safer brakes or more stringent chemical safety requirements. I don't place the brunt of these issues on him, but he's doing fuck-all about them.