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  • This isn’t abnormal. I work in an HR department for state legislature. The assembly and senate members will often give some of their staff temporary bonuses in the form on a temporary increase in salary. During the legislative term staff can sometimes work 16+ hour days depending on their role as a staffer with the member they work for. Since we are all salaried these staff are not paid overtime. They get comped time to take off extra hours for every hour they worked, but depending on office logistics, they aren’t always able to use that time and it expires at the end of the legislative term.

    The elected officials all get an office budget to work with, which is passed via state budget law. It’s up to the elected official how to use the funds as long as they aren’t doing anything illegal.

    I don’t know jack shit about how staff salary works at the national congressional level.

    The gifts were noted in the staffers’ annual financial disclosure forms that were published by the administration last week.

    Trump is garbage, but in this instance it might be a nothing burger.



  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldSchoollife2
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    If you are in highschool, junior high, maybe it’s time to ask the teacher if you can stay late to get extra help. If you are in college, you should really go to the professor’s office hours for help and check and see if your university has tutors. I managed to scrape a B- in calculus 2 even though the professor sucked as a teacher by asking for extra help. Good luck.














  • I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are still learning about this topic, instead of a troll. Jared Kushner does not hold a government position. He serves as an outside adviser and informal envoy, assisting with foreign policy and negotiations without holding a formal cabinet position. Jeffries talking to Kushner has nothing to do with wanting or having a functional government. Any influence Kushner has in the world is through his association with the Trump brand and his/Trump’s money.

    After leaving the White House, Jared Kushner started a private equity firm named Affinity Partners. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia invested $2 billion into this firm. Kushner’s firm has collected over $110 million in management fees from the Saudi government and other Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, even before producing major investment profits for them.

    So, if Kushner is unofficially advising Trump/The white house, this really looks like Saudi Arabia is bribing Kushner for access via a bullshit investment into Kushner’s company. Furthermore, Iran is not on good terms with Saudi Arabia. So if you’re thinking Jeffries is using Kushner’s relationship with the Saudis to leverage ceasefire with Iran. That’s the least likely outcome. The Saudi’s would rather we keep up the conflict with Iran.

    Kushner, (and Trump,) are corrupt as fuck. Nothing good will come of Jeffries talking with Kushner. There are other avenues for Jeffries to speak with the president and participate in foreign policy. This just makes Jeffries look super corrupt and complicit with the trump administration.

    But Jefferies won his primary, he has the mandate of his district.

    The only reason why he won his primary is because the person running against him didn’t get financial support from DSA the way other candidates did. The DSA thought it would be too costly to try and oust Jefferies, so they focused on other primaries that were more winnable. If anything, this might piss off enough democrats in his district that they vote against him for a republican, or just don’t vote period. I honestly think that this will be one of the nails in the coffin of Jefferies political career.