(Worthy Insights) – Elon Musk on Sunday shared that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has selected its new target: Lawmakers who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars despite a modest, by comparison, public salary.
Regular senators and House lawmakers currently earn $174,000 annually, while Senate leaders earn $193,400 per year, according to the upper chamber’s website. That salary would not explain how some lawmakers are now worth tens of millions, even after decades in the chamber. People like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are worth hundreds of millions.
Musk told a Wisconsin audience that he would look into the flood of wealth, after an attendee asked him if DOGE had uncovered evidence of money sent from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Democrats in Congress. [ Source (Read More…) ]
I think we all have wondered about those particular “public servants” (wink, wink).