D.C. public officials paid in excess of $1 billion annually, as city lobbies for $3 billion bailout – IOTW Report

D.C. public officials paid in excess of $1 billion annually, as city lobbies for $3 billion bailout

Monday, 22 June 2020, 13:15 BFH Uncategorized 11

Just The News:

The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The ward is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s. 

This week, our award is going to the city leadership of the nation’s capital, for continuing to lobby for a coronavirus bailout package that would exceed $3 billion, while spending more than $1 billion annually on some of the most exorbitant government salaries in the nation.

Like most other American cities, the District is required to balance its budget annually. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, city officials are claiming a $1.5 billion budget deficit and asking Congress for $3.15 billion over two years to alleviate the city’s financials woes.

The Heroes Act, which passed through the lower chamber last month, allocates more money to Washington, D.C. than to several U.S. states. But according to a new report by Open the Books’ Adam Andrzjewski, D.C. city employees are routinely paid (often significantly) higher salaries than their state and federal government counterparts. MORE

11 Comments on D.C. public officials paid in excess of $1 billion annually, as city lobbies for $3 billion bailout

  4. There’s only one fair and equitable solution to this terrible dilemma: immediate Statehood! Then two US Senators and a voting member or two Representatives can work with their fellow Dementiacrats to solve the fiscal problems of this benighted public trough.

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  9. Give 90% of DC back to Maryland. DC should be reduced to fed govt buildings only with no housing, no legal residents, thus no city govt needed, and no representation needed in congress.

    I say this as a native Marylander (I left for good in 1997), and a resident of the District itself for several years back in the 1970s (I left shortly after that benighted city got “home rule”).

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