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Cry Me a Pay Raise: Congress Cuts and Runs While America Suffers

They’re demanding raises and defending stock trading all while adjourning for summer to avoid a vote on the Epstein files and leave safety nets in flames.

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General Azmundus
Jul 25, 2025
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Speaker Mike Johnson wants you to know that $174,000 a year just isn’t cutting it. According to the man third in line to the presidency, members of Congress are struggling to “support their families” and need the right to trade stocks just to scrape by. You know, like every day Americans do, between their night shift at Waffle House and waiting on their…

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