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Gwen Moore: “I can't earn $30,000 more than $30,000 beyond my taxpayer…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Rep. Gwen Moore on Musk's Alarming Power Grab.

Published | Video Starts at 03:04

You know, I'm a federal employee as Such I am an elected official and let me just say I can't earn $30,000 more than $30,000 beyond my taxpayer funded salary. And yet you have a man that just the other day, somehow I don't know who Grant, you know, he had fired everybody. So I don't know how he got granted $38 million contract. (03:04–03:14)

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Asserts that federal employees have a salary cap of $30,000 beyond their taxpayer-funded salary.

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