{"id":10697,"date":"2018-12-25T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2018-12-25T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T19:39:48","slug":"ocasio-cortez-calls-for-furlough-of-congressional-pay-next-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/25\/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-furlough-of-congressional-pay-next-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Furlough of Congressional Pay Next Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">December 22, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>153 US House members and 50 US Senators are millionaires<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/common-dreams-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams staff<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app-id-name=\"headline_above_content\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Furlough of Congressional Pay Next Shutdown\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/12\/22\/ocasio-cortez-calls-furlough-congressional-pay-next-shutdown\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope shareaholic-share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui shareaholic-no-print shareaholic-flat shareaholic- shareaholic-block shareaholic-horizontal  shareaholic-mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading shareaholic-custom\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading-text ng-binding\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/ocasio_cortez_0.png?itok=IFiZH5qx\" alt=\"Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a rally on October 1, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo: Scott Eisen\/Getty Images)\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a rally on October 1, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo: Scott Eisen\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p>US Rep.-elect\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be put on hold during the next government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The US government went into a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Trump refused to sign a spending bill that did not include $5 billion for his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He had long claimed that Mexico would pay for the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines &amp; then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave some integrity,\u201d she added, calling for\u00a0salaries\u00a0to be furloughed for the next shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the House and the Senate are paid $174,000 a year. According to\u00a0<em>Roll Call<\/em>, 153 House members and 50 senators are millionaires.<\/p>\n<p>More than 420,000 federal workers who are considered \u201cessential\u201d will continue working &#8212; but without pay, according to CBS News. Those employees may eventually receive back pay. However, an additional 380,000 workers will be furloughed and may miss a paycheck depending on how long the shutdown lasts.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez, who will join Congress in early January \u00a0as the new representative for New York\u2019s 14th District, has been a vocal critic of the demand for $5 billion for a border wall. When the House passed a short-term spending bill with $5.7 billion for border security, Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0challenged the GOP trope that the federal government simply doesn&#8217;t have the money to implement bold progressive policies such as Medicare for All or a Green New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just like that, GOP discovers $5.7 billion for a wall,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote. \u201cBut notice how no one\u2019s asking the GOP how they\u2019re paying for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she outlined another way the $5.7 billion could be spent instead of Trump\u2019s proposed wall. \u00a0\u201cFor the wall\u2019s $5.7 billion, every child in America could have access to Universal Pre-K. Yet when we propose the SAME $, we\u2019re told Universal Edu is a \u2018fantasy\u2019 &amp; asked \u2018how are you going to pay for it.\u2019 Education is investment in society that yields returns,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cWalls are waste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 22, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams 153 US House members and 50 US Senators are millionaires by\u00a0Common Dreams staff Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks at a rally on October 1, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo: Scott Eisen\/Getty Images) &nbsp; US Rep.-elect\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/25\/ocasio-cortez-calls-for-furlough-of-congressional-pay-next-shutdown\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10698,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/10698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}