Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has claimed that she’s working “totally free” in Congress as a result of “they take all of my cash away” to cowl her fines for refusing to put on a masks on the Home flooring.
“They take the cash straight out of my checks,” Greene grumbled to right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on video. It wasn’t clear when the tape was recorded.
Greene stated final 12 months she was violating the rule aimed toward stopping the unfold of COVID-19 as a way to stand “towards authoritarian Democratic mandates as a result of I don’t need the American individuals to face alone.”
Greene was dinged $48,000 in fines as of final November and stated in January that her superb tab was practically $90,000.
Home members earn $174,000 a 12 months.
Lawmakers are fined $500 for his or her first masks violation and $2,500 for every subsequent one. Greene’s first violation was in Could 2021.
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