{"id":1372747,"date":"2022-03-12T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1372747"},"modified":"2022-03-12T08:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T13:31:25","slug":"house-staff-budget-for-salaries-gets-21-boost-in-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-staff-budget-for-salaries-gets-21-boost-in-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Staff Budget for Salaries Gets 21% Boost in Spending Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-staff-budget-for-salaries-gets-21-boost-in-spending-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1372747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-10\/GettyImages-1340157012.jpg?h=eab8a5da&#038;itok=Y6bVYXv_\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Congress passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill Thursday evening that increases House staff budgets for salaries and operations by 21%, compared to past year.<\/p>\n<p>This increase is the largest since 1996 when the\u00a0&#8220;Members Representational Allowance&#8221; was authorized, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation appropriates $774.4 million for the MRA, which provides funding for House office budgets that cover lawmakers&#8217; staff salaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/pelosi-house-staff-make-more-money-members-congress\">Staffers can earn<\/a> up to $199,300, which is more than their bosses at\u00a0$174,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to Roll Call, the MRA funding increase &#8220;would allow those at the lower end of the pay scale, such as staff assistants, to be paid more&#8221; but &#8220;members would not receive a pay increase under the bill, a point of contention for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also provides millions to compensate Capitol Hill interns. In the private sector, many interns work for college credit rather than pay. The bill includes $18.2 million for House interns.<\/p>\n<p>On the Senate side, the legislation provides $1.1 billion for salaries and operations and $7 million for interns.<\/p>\n<p>The bill additional amount for interns is roughly $1 million more, compared to fiscal 2021, with an average of $70,000 to each senator\u2019s office for the sole purpose of compensating interns,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Leg%20Branch2.pdf\">Senate Appropriations Committee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quigley.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/quigley-secures-pay-white-house-interns-government-funding-bill\">White House interns<\/a> are also now able to get paid for the first time after passage of the large domestic spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also increased the U.S. Capitol Police budget by 14% with an $87 million cash infusion, up from $602 million the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/budget\/2022\/03\/congress-seeks-updates-on-state-of-the-federal-workforce-in-1-5t-omnibus-spending-deal\/\">The Internal Revenue Service<\/a>\u00a0will have more manpower as a result of the spending bill&#8217;s passage. The agency received its largest funding increase in decades. The IRS budget went up $675 million to\u00a0$12.6 billion, which is the largest jump since 2001. The agency plans to hire 10,000 workers to address backlogs and this year&#8217;s tax filing season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2,700-page spending bill passed the Congress less than 48 hours after it was introduced.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill Thursday evening that increases House staff budgets for salaries and operations by 21%, compared to past year.This increase is the largest since 1996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}