Bipartisian legislators promise to skip payroll checks during the government’s closure

An increasing number of legislators on both sides of the aisle have declared that they renounce their pay checks while the government closes takes place.

The federal government has been closed for almost a week after the Democrats in the Senate rejected the Plan of the Republicans to finance the agencies until November 21 several times.

Representatives Chip Roy, R-Texas, Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, Tom Barrett, R-Mich., Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa and Rob Bresnahan, R-P-Pa., Among the Republicans who wrote to the administrative director of the American Chamber of representatives who asked them to be referenced during a stop.

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The representatives Chip Roy, on the left, and Ashley Hinson, on the right, asked that their wages be retained during a closure, while Senator Lindsey Graham, in the center, said he would donate his. (Images Kent Nishimura / Getty; Amir Levy / Getty Images; Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Democrats like the representatives Josh Gottheimer, Dn.J., and Lou Correa, D-Calif., Asked for the same thing.

But legislators requesting their salary cannot completely give it up, because federal law requires that they be paid.

Article I of the Constitution stipulates: “Senators and representatives receive compensation for their services, to be noted by law and paid to the Treasury of the United States.”

In addition, the 27th amendment prevents any modification of the congress remuneration before the next elections.

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Representative Josh Gottheimer speaks after the Governor’s democratic debate at Rider university in Lawrenceville, NJ, on February 2, 2025. (Mike Catalini / AP)

Most legislators in the Chamber and Senate are paid $ 174,000 per year – a figure that has not changed since 2009 – while members of the Congress Management can earn more.

A familiar source with the case told Fox News Digital that Congress members could choose to hold their salary until the end of a closure, but they must receive it as a priest when the government is again funded.

Meanwhile, representative Joe Morelle, Dn.y., the best democrat of the Chamber’s administration committee, said Bloomberg Government Last week, these checks can be devoted to an account distinct from the usual wages of the legislators. He declared at the point of sale: “It is an administrative way to retain the salary for the people who choose it.”

The government is in a partial closure after the Congress did not conclude an agreement on federal funding. (Getty Images)

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Congress employees, on the other hand, automatically miss the pay checks if their pay period falls during a government closure – but it is also a handbag at the end of the closure.

Some legislators, such as sense. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., And Lindsey Graham, RS.C., announced that they would donate their pay check for the duration of the closure.

“Each day, the government remains closed, I will donate my salary to the Tampa Bay crisis center, which provides help to the vulnerable populations that could be affected by this reckless choice,” Moody said in a statement last week.