{"id":2267493,"date":"2024-06-14T02:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-blasts-biden-for-opposing-their-pay-raise-for-low-ranking-troops\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T02:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T06:11:58","slug":"house-gop-blasts-biden-for-opposing-their-pay-raise-for-low-ranking-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-blasts-biden-for-opposing-their-pay-raise-for-low-ranking-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Criticizes Biden for Rejecting Pay Increase for Junior Troops"},"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-gop-blasts-biden-for-opposing-their-pay-raise-for-low-ranking-troops%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=2267493&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--><p>President Biden \u2064has faced \u200bcriticism from\u2064 House Republicans after opposing a proposal \u2064in the\u200d National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aimed to increase the basic pay for low-ranking military \u2064troops by 19.5% next year. The White House released\u200c a statement \u200bexpressing Biden&#8217;s strong\u2064 opposition to this significant change prior to the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrenial Review of \u2063Military Compensation (QRMC). The House-led initiative was designed\u200b to raise the minimum income of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">service members<\/a> to at least \u2063$30,000 annually, highlighting that some early-career enlisted members earn \u200bas little as $24,000, not including benefits like\u2062 housing allowances and healthcare.\u2062 The urgency of this raise was\u200d underscored by a USDA report revealing that \u200ba quarter of the military population faced food insecurity between 2018 and 2020. Republican Representative Derrick\u200d Van Orden criticized Biden harshly, contrasting the president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-targets-tpusas-charlie-kirk-with-cheap-shot-hit-job\/\" title=\"AP takes aim at TPUSA's Charlie Kirk with biased hit piece.\">personal financial success<\/a> with the struggles faced by junior enlisted personnel, citing \u200chis own experience of financial difficulty when\u200d he was a Navy\u200b Seal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After President Biden opposed the House-led version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would give low-ranking troops in the military a 19.5% raise in basic pay next year, House Republicans blasted him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The White House issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/SAP-HR8070.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> this week in which they stated Biden \u201cstrongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC).\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSome early-career enlisted service members can make as little as $24,000, not including their housing allowances and free health care,\u201d The Daily Mail <a href=\"\/\/CE7FC7D4-2F5A-49D3-A7B0-036F20274125\/v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>. \u201cThe House plan would ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">service members make<\/a> at least $30,000 per year. \u2026 One quarter of the military population experienced food insecurity between 2018 and 2020 , according to the US Department of Agriculture\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJoe Biden\u00a0managed to become a multi-millionaire on a public servant salary,\u201d Rep. Derrick Van Orden, (R-WI) told The Daily Mail. \u201cAnd he is snatching food out of our junior enlisted people\u2019s mouths.\u201d He recalled that when he served as a Navy Seal his wife needed WIC coupons to fed their children. \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting and reprehensible. I can\u2019t feel more strongly about it. That is bulls****,\u201d he said of the White House\u2019s attitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s completely insane,\u201d Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) echoed. \u201cI can\u2019t understand that the rationale and in what universe it would make sense, either from a policy or from a political perspective. They\u2019re actually going out of their way to say no to this and explain why this is a bad idea and it\u2019s, it\u2019s completely irrational and politically it\u2019s actually suicidal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), said Biden\u2019s opposition was \u201cone of the dumbest things I\u2019ve ever heard come out of [Biden\u2019s] mouth,\u201d adding, \u201cYou got one out of eight ballistic guys on staff at food and water food banks, particularly in DC, San Diego. And we figured we worked hard to figure out would the price need to be to get them above that threshold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia said former President Donald Trump discussed the issue with House Republicans on Wednesday and said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-denies-oklahomas-attempt-to-block-national-guard-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Federal Judge Denies Oklahoma\u2019s Attempt To Block National Guard Vaccine Mandate\">military pay<\/a> would be a \u201cfront burner issue.\u201d He said Trump declared, \u201cEveryone knows that we\u2019re having challenges in our military right now. So why would you not support getting them to the equivalent of a minimum wage which the rest of the universe has in our country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a pay raise targeted at the E1 through E4 level, who are currently making literally $12 an hour, right now, which in California is about half of what the fast food workers make at McDonald\u2019s,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet the White House statement expressed concern about DEI, writing, \u201cThe Administration strongly opposes Sections 573 and 1113(g)(3), which would limit the ability of DoD and Federal agencies to support and promote positive cultures that empower, respect, and value all employees and students. The prohibitions regarding DEI efforts would impede DoD\u2019s and Federal agencies\u2019 ability to recruit and retain the diverse perspectives, experiences, and skillsets that are foundational to the strength of the Federal workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden rejected the House&#8217;s version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which proposed a 19.5% pay raise for low-ranking military personnel. House Republicans criticized his decision. The White House stated that Biden &#8220;strongly opposes&#8221; such a substantial, enduring alteration to military pay structures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2267494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2156651324.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2156651324.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267493","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2267494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}