Hakeem Jeffries Asked Point Blank About Members Of Congress Getting Reimbursed For Rent And Meals

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[noneyabizz]

Fleecing the public with every chance they get

[gildawilliams]

I want to be reembursed for my living expenses!!!😮

[joe.oneill]

Isn't that why they get paid so much? That has long been their argument on when they vote themselves raises.

[jasonsworld]

Its called a PUBLIC service for a reason.

[RebelGorilla]

Bipartisan doesn't mean morally right. Bipartisan usually means something nefarious is about to happen.

[stuartX]

Essentially blaming ‘the other side’ while running off with the money.

[carronexpress]

Pay for my rent my taxes go to congress rent. Wow why are we being taxed?

[whatthe]

If i could vote to reimburse myself, I would be buying the most expensive everything for myself . When you explain yourself with sign language, your struggling.

[partyboat]

Can every public official get reimbursements on housing and meals?

[sheppoo]

Here's an example of meaningless hand gestures.

[jenni]

The rest of us have to figure out how to have housing and food on the salaries we get from our current jobs just like these representatives paid with our tax dollars should also have to do. They make more than most Americans already.

[mikusoxlongius]

We should be worried about the dual-citizens in Congress.
I'd sure like to have 100% loyal representation. But that's just me...

[johngriffith]

Like I’ve said before we don’t have a two party system in the USA. It’s a one party system and the American people are too blinded by the rhetoric and politics to see it.

[jdcalhoun]

This isn’t for them to vote on the people they work for needs to vote for such. After all they work for the American people

[yesterdayisgone]

What is it with them waving their fingers and hands around. Looks like a clown. Not to mention they lie constantly.

[bengray]

Congress pays themselves! How crooked ! Where is my Reimbursements ????

[poppasensei]

Yeah we like money that will always be a bipartisan issue😅

[benrowe]

No trouble with one. Members of Congress are public servants, and should receive a generous stipend for housing and meals while they are in Washington.

[MultiNKnight]

Raising the debt ceiling to pay themselves....😮

[ghost]

You guys can agree on more money in your pockets but not anything else 💀💀 tyrants will find out the hard way who this country belongs to I guess.