Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to raise the minimum salary in her congressional office led to some jeers over on Fox News.
“Fox & Friends” weekend co-host Pete Hegseth slammed the move, calling it “socialism and communism on display” and mockingly urged her to give some of her own salary to her staff.
Lawmakers each have a budget for operating and staffing their respective offices and can set salaries accordingly. Last week, the Democrat from New York said jobs in her office would start at $52,000/year.
“She is going to redistribute the money appropriated to her congressional office to make sure that the entry-level staffers get a fair share of money,” co-host Griff Jenkins said. “Here’s the problem: You’ve got to find a way to get money to pay the entry-level people so she plans to take that from the chief of staff.”
Hegseth chimed in:
“Your entry level intern is making 52 grand, while your chief of staff ― who has a very important role in a congressional office ― now is capped at 80, as opposed to the actual market rate on Capitol Hill which is closer to $150,000. So everyones’s between 52 and 80. It’s actually socialism and communism on display.”
In which Fox attacks @AOC paying her staffers a living wage as "communism" and botches basic math by deciding that paying interns $15 an hour means an "entry level intern will be making 52 grand" pic.twitter.com/73AaIUZ0eE
The “Fox & Friends” team also seemed to have a problem with the fact that Ocasio-Cortez’s office, like all offices of lawmakers, was funded by the government.
“It’s not like she earned the money,” Jenkins said. “She’s just redistributing it.”
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