Biden rejects military pay raises

Why is it ok to pay off student loans, while enlisted folks have to live in poverty?

House lawmakers said their 15% pay raise proposal was based on research conducted by a quality-of-life panel convened by the House Armed Services Committee in collaboration with the Defense Department. The panel said junior service members needed a sizable pay increase to keep up with a rising cost of living that can strain the budgets of troops making as little as $24,000 in basic pay. Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the Republican chairman of the committee, sharply criticized the White House for rejecting the proposal. “President Biden believes providing the men and women who serve in our armed forces with adequate compensation is too costly. This is offensive and wrong,” he said in a statement. “Too many military families are relying on food banks, [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program], and the [Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children] in order to put food on the table. Republicans and Democrats on our committee agreed this is unacceptable.”

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Northwest · M

Biden rejects military pay raises

Let's see how this could be translated into English.

There are two bills under consideration.

The House is proposing a 19.5% raise for junior enlisted personnel.

The Senate is proposing a 5.5% raise for junior enlisted personnel.

The White House Budget Office, which is responsible for doing a sanity check, which is what they're supposed to do, indicated that the 19.5% raise, will blow the budget, so it this needs to be done, the budget needs to be raised.

So, someone saw "White House" in a sentence, and translate it into Biden rejects military pay raises, but if someone goes to the URL that accompanied the post that started the thread, they will realize that the claim Biden rejects military pay raises is not the proper English translation of that article.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@Northwest The Whitehouse/Executive branch, spoke out against the pay raise.

Who is the leader of the Executive branch?

Doing easy math 5.5% for someone making 26,000 a year is a raise of 119.00 per month,

Minimum wage workers in California make over 40,000 per year working at McDonalds.

Many of these troops have more responsibility before they turn 20, than many people
have in their entire lives.

At 19 years old, I was signing off inspections and repair on multi-million dollar
fighter jets in the USAF. I brought home 280.00 per month.

Northwest · M

@DogMan

The Whitehouse/Executive branch, spoke out against the pay raise.

I don't know what the "Whitehouse/Executive branch" is.

I deal with facts, not modified sounds bites.

We must have an NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), as we've done for the past 63 years.

In the meanwhile, the House, and as a reaction, the Senate, went off on their one. One proposing 19.5% as an election year prop, and the other proposing 5.5%.

Meanwhile, the administration wants a comprehensive look at the issues, and successfully enacting NDAA.

The White House budget office, yesterday, said that the 19.5% figure is not going to fit within the budget, so the latter needs to be addressed.

The White House press office, chimed in with some boilerplate language, specifically "strongly supports enactment of a National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for a 64th consecutive year", which does not say much. More importantly, it does not say what your thread title suggests.

But let's go with your politics, aka Biden hates the military, instead of the truth.