{"id":1972396,"date":"2023-07-13T18:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bloat-white-house-payroll-balloons-to-over-500-fueled-by-huge-increase-in-jills-staff\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:46:03","slug":"biden-bloat-white-house-payroll-balloons-to-over-500-fueled-by-huge-increase-in-jills-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bloat-white-house-payroll-balloons-to-over-500-fueled-by-huge-increase-in-jills-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s White House payroll swells to 500+, driven by significant growth in Jill&#8217;s team."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-bloat-white-house-payroll-balloons-to-over-500-fueled-by-huge-increase-in-jills-staff%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=1972396&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--><h2>Biden Bloat: White House Payroll Balloons to Over 500, Fueled by Huge Increase in Jill&#8217;s Staff<\/h2>\n<p>Bidenomics might not be helping Americans, but it\u2019s sure helping the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<p>The payroll of President Joe Biden\u2019s White House hit 524 in the third year of his disastrous presidency \u2014 50 more than in Year 2.<\/p>\n<p>And a huge jump in first lady Jill Biden\u2019s staff was part of the surge.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers come from the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/July-1-2023-Report-Final-Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> to Congress on White House staff, released June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The payroll figure is higher than last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/July-1-2022-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">total<\/a> of 474, though lower than Biden\u2019s first-year White House payroll of 560. However, the total payroll bill for 2023 still tops the $50,276,976 that made up White House salaries in 2021, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/openthebooks.substack.com\/p\/joe-bidens-fat-white-house-payroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenTheBooks<\/a>, a nonprofit group that focuses on government spending.<\/p>\n<p>(OpenTheBooks variously reported the White House\u2019s 2023 payroll bill as $52,775,234 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openthebooks.com\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$53,410,334<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jill-biden-tries-assure-donors-nothing-can-slow-joe-americans-arent-buying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Biden<\/a> somehow managed to scrape through 2022 with only eight staff members, but that number this year grew to 20. They included a \u201csocial media platform manager\u201d taking in $113,039 per year for a job that wasn\u2019t even on the list last year, nor the one released in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/July-1-2021-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means that out of the 50 more employees the White House has in 2023 compared to 2022, more than 20 percent of the growth has come from the 150 percent increase in Jill Biden\u2019s staff. How many private employers grow their staff by 150 percent in one year?<\/p>\n<h3>Is the Biden White House staff bloated?<\/h3>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Is the Biden White House staff bloated?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n\t\t\tYes: 100% (38 Votes)\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n\t\t\tNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In former President Donald Trump\u2019s White House in its third year, the total payroll was only 416, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/July-1-2019-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> released June 28, 2019. Former first lady Melania Trump\u2019s staff topped out at 12 \u2014 just over half the size of Jill Biden\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The salary data was released almost two weeks ago, but it resurfaced Thursday with an American Thinker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/payroll_for_bidens_proliferating_white_house_staff_soars_to_160_million_in_under_3_years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> by Olivia Murray that drew readers\u2019 attention to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-socialist-appointed-president-of-new-congressional-workers-union\/\" title=\"\"Democratic Socialist\" Appointed President of New Congressional Workers Union\">highest-paid member<\/a> of the White House staff.<\/p>\n<p>That would be Demetre C. Daskalakis, \u201cdeputy coordinator for the monkeypox response,\u201d with a salary of \u00a0$260,718.<\/p>\n<p>Readers might recall Deskalakis as a physician and gay activist with tattoos that include a pentagram \u2014 a symbol of satanic rituals \u2014 and a taste for bondage-style clothing with a similar theme. Considering that monkeypox has been almost exclusively seen among promiscuous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doctors-hearing-monkeypox-infected-gay-men-exposes-liberal-health-hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gay men<\/a>, that might have been intentional.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disgraced-non-binary-former-biden-official-finding-hard-way-jails-binary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Brinton<\/a> might not have been available.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meet Demetre Daskalakis.<br \/>\nDemetre was just appointed by Joe Biden to be the official White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator. Demetre proudly wears the official symbol of the Church of Satan: The Pentagram.<br \/>\nJoe Biden appointed a Satanist to the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TiMPY29AtC\">pic.twitter.com\/TiMPY29AtC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1567861469974331392?\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those kinds of personality quirks made Deskalakis the subject of headlines like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDid Biden Appoint a Gay Satanist to Lead the National Response to Monkeypox?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-appoint-gay-satanist-lead-national-response-monkeypox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a>, Sept. 8, 2022).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBiden Monkeypox Adviser Accused of Being \u2018Satanist\u2019 by Right-Wing Critics\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-monkeypox-adviser-accused-being-satanist-right-wing-critics-1741568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>, Sept. 9, 2022). Oh, those crazy \u201cright-wing critics.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c5 Things to Know About Demetre Deskalakis (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2022\/09\/16\/5-things-to-know-about-demetre-daskalakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washingtonian<\/a>, Sept. 16, 2022). Interestingly enough, the Satanist baggage only came in at No. 2. The No. 1 thing to know was that he is \u201chighly credentialed.\u201d You don\u2019t get more establishment than the Washingtonian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, no one can say for sure that the U.S. would survive without a suspected satanist raking in more than a quarter of a million dollars a year to supervise the country\u2019s response to the monkeypox epidemic. But it seems like a good bet, considering that monkeypox was only in the news last year just long enough to get its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-due-racist-stigmatizing-language-monkeypox-officially-renamed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">name changed<\/a> by the World Health Organization because it offended liberal sensitivities.<\/p>\n<p>(The fact that the White House itself is still referring to it as \u201cmonkeypox\u201d might make a cynical American suspect that the man in charge of the response isn\u2019t putting in a whole lot of detail work \u2014 gay Satanist or no gay Satanist.)<\/p>\n<p>But no one can argue that the country can sleep soundly knowing the White House is in the hands of the kind of crack team that has brought on the combination of relentless inflation and rampant government spending known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-biden-gets-torched-live-fox-news-graphics-shows-truth-bidenomics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bidenomics<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-pushes-for-20b-in-infrastructure-funding-to-go-to-electric-school-buses\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris pushes for B in infrastructure funding to go to electric school buses\">rest easy knowing<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> of Jill Biden are being savvily managed.<\/p>\n<p>And even if there\u2019s an openly gay, pentagram-sporting suspected Satanist running the response to the rechristened \u201cmpox\u201d outbreak, there\u2019s little to fear.<\/p>\n<p>With the Biden White House, Americans are getting what they paid for.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-bloat-white-house-payroll-balloons-500-fueled-huge-increase-jills-staff\/\">Biden Bloat: White House Payroll Balloons to Over 500, Fueled by Huge Increase in Jill&#8217;s Staff<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidenomics may not benefit Americans, but it certainly benefits the Biden White House. In the third year of his presidency, President Joe Biden&#8217;s staff count reached 524, a 50-person increase from the previous year. The surge also included a significant rise in first lady Jill Biden&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":1972397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972396","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\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}