As The Daily Wire noted Monday, many in Congress feel like it’s finally time to give themselves a long overdue raise after suffering a decade-long pay freeze at just $174,000 — more than three times the median salary in America (about $47,000 in the first quarter of 2019). Their proposed new salary would be $178,700, a $4,700 raise. But that plan appears to have been rather quickly derailed amid internal backlash from Democrats who fear that giving themselves more taxpayer money might end up putting their reelection chances in jeopardy.
Though supporters of the pay raise stress that they had bipartisan support and insist that a “modest” bump in pay is a necessary “cost of living” adjustment, Politico reported Monday evening that the plan has been “postponed.”
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