{"id":55299,"date":"2024-06-14T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55299"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:07:04","slug":"honoring-the-people-who-pay-you-not-the-people-who-protect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55299","title":{"rendered":"Honoring The People Who Pay You&#8211;Not The People Who Protect You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/06\/11\/biden-admin-shoots-down-24-billion-pay-raise-enlisted-troops-spending-seven-times-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden administration \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military \u2014 even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader region\u2019s security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The House Armed Services Committee\u2019s (HASC) draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/05\/30\/ndaa-far-left-defense-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDAA<\/a>) would give all junior troops a pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2024-06\/hr8070_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raise<\/a>, representing a rough total of $24.4 billion over five years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2024-06\/hr8070_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Congressional Budget Office. The Biden administration said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/SAP-HR8070.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> on Tuesday that it does not support the proposed \u201csignificant, permanent\u201d pay hike until it has had a chance to conduct a compensation review.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe Administration is strongly committed to taking care of our Servicemembers and their families, and appreciates the Committee\u2019s concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation,\u201d the White House budget office said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cJoe Biden must hate our military,\u201d Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, also on the committee, told the DCNF. \u201cWhile families of our junior enlisted struggle on food stamps, this administration opposes their pay raises and wants to force-feed them pronoun training and drag queen story hour. If Biden had any PRIDE at all in our troops, he\u2019d support the long overdue pay raise House Republicans have passed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is a fantastic money-laundering tool for Democrat (and some Republican) campaigns. It is an almost unlimited source of funds for American politicians. It also provides the President of Ukraine with a lifestyle that is unimaginable to his countrymen. It may be time to unelect every Congressman who has voted continuously for Ukrainian aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported: The Biden administration \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military \u2014 even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,580,174,11101,118,2792,1428,16522,11360,14017,7015,7146,211],"class_list":["post-55299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-daily-caller","tag-house-armed-services-committee","tag-joe-biden","tag-military","tag-national-defense-authorization-act","tag-pay-raise","tag-pay-raises","tag-the-biden-administration","tag-the-daily-caller","tag-ukraine","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55300,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55299\/revisions\/55300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}