Current Events > MTG sponsors bill reducing Defense Secretary's salary to $1

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House lawmakers passed an amendment to a defense spending bill that would reduce Defense Secretary Lloyd Austins salary to just $1, though the provision is unlikely to become law in a piece of legislation that seems doomed to fail.

The amendment, offered by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), was agreed to in the House by voice vote Wednesday afternoon.

The provision states clearly: None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to pay Defense Secretary Lloyd James Austin III a salary that exceeds $1.

Greene hailed her victory in passing the amendment, saying Austin should be fired from his post for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and for low military recruitment.

She said even $1 was too much for the defense chief.

Theres a loss in confidence in Lloyd Austins leadership and he deserves to be fired, Greene said in a Wednesday video after the vote.

Austin, who has an annual salary exceeding $221,000, is a retired four-star general who served 41 years in the military and is the first African American to lead the Defense Department.

The Senate confirmed him by a 93-2 vote in 2021.

Greene, however, has frequently railed against his leadership. The Georgia Republican has also complained about U.S. service members being fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccines.

Secretary Austin has not fulfilled his job duties; as a matter of fact, hes destroying our military, Greene said on the House floor.

For the amendment, Greene used the Holman rule, which allows the House to reduce the salaries of federal employees or fire them.

Other conservative lawmakers in the House have also complained about Austin, particularly over the Afghanistan withdrawal. Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) introduced articles of impeachment against the Pentagon chief last month over the withdrawal.

The spending bills to fund the federal government face an uncertain future in the House, which is struggling to pass them, and are unlikely to pass in the current form in the Senate.

MTG has some big plans

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not gonna lie I am SOMEHWHAT intrigued by the Final Fantasy set coming in 2024

but at the same time Final Fantasy has their own game

She never refers to these officials by their titles. I dont think shes ever referred to Joe Biden as the President.

Huh? I need to look into this

She never refers to these officials by their titles. I dont think shes ever referred to Joe Biden as the President.

Sounds like I need to get back into Magic

Just don't look at it as an investment.

Secondary market is actively being destroyed by WotC. If you just want to play and be content you wasted your money on cardboard that will never hold value then more power to you.

And I think she and her party just plain old have a problem with who the Secretary of Defense is.

Doubt it.

Trump want Miley dead and he is white.

As Chris Hayes said last night they're doing this as punishment because the military didn't go along with 1/6

Someone else should sponsor a bill stripping MTG of her citizenship.

And shooting her out of a cannon into the sea

And shooting her out of a cannon into the sea

Someone else should sponsor a bill stripping MTG of her citizenship.

Certain facets of the GOP are beyond desperate to make the Afghanistan withdrawal - an event in the first year of Biden's presidency that has had little to no direct effect on the American people - an election-defining albatross around Biden's neck. Good luck with that.

Nothing say strong national defense like paying the leadership less then a dollar to not only make it effectively purely volunteer work with zero incentive but that few cents to make it an outright insult too.

They'd likely rescind the law once someone they liked got appointed.