More lawmakers say they're rejecting paychecks as government shutdown drags on

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More lawmakers say they're rejecting paychecks as government shutdown drags on
Members of Congress make a yearly salary of $174,000
By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News
Published October 6, 2025 5:00am EDT

A growing number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have declared they're forgoing their paychecks as the government shutdown drags on.

The federal government has been shut down for nearly a week after Senate Democrats rejected Republicans' plan to fund agencies through Nov. 21 multiple times.

Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, Tom Barrett, R-Mich., Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., are among the Republicans who wrote to the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives asking for their pay to be withheld during a shutdown.

Democrats like Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Lou Correa, D-Calif., have requested the same.

But lawmakers requesting their pay be withheld cannot forgo it altogether, because federal law requires them to be paid.

Article I of the Constitution states, "The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States."

Further, the 27th Amendment prevents any changes to congressional pay until after the next election.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

That's mighty white of them.

Real people have real world problems that are not solved by virtue signaling.

Not getting paid puts real stress on real families that can contribute to the disintegration of family units.  Being an air traffic controller is stressful enough, without having to go home to money issues.

In the real world, if people aren't getting their paychecks, they stop showing up for work.

People of power, wealth, prestige, and status need to stop $h!tt!ng on people who go to work everyday and follow the rules.

The failure to pass a budget on time is not the failure of TSA agents nor USDA meat inspectors; it is the failure of Congress.  Members of Congress should suffer the consequences of their gross dysfunction, not people who show up and do their jobs everyday.

[verga]

Big deal. They will get the money in full when the government reopens, they are deferring, not giving them up. 

[Smokin Joe]

Big deal. They will get the money in full when the government reopens, they are deferring, not giving them up.

Exactly! If they donated it back to the US Treasury, that would be another thing.