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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s planned resignation in early January 2026 comes just after she will have completed five years of House service, which under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) make...
Taxpayer-borne presidential travel routinely runs into the millions: Air Force One operations alone can cost roughly $5 million for a single short overseas trip, and multi‑stop tours can top $20 milli...
Analyses of how much the Obamas “spent” on trips and vacations vary widely because groups count different things: Judicial Watch’s document-based tallies put known Secret Service and Air Force travel ...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative table of “total presidential travel costs for Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump during each full term”; instead, reporting and studies offer part...
Available reporting shows widely used per‑hour estimates for operating the presidential Boeing 747 (Air Force One/VC‑25 variants) range from roughly $160,000–$206,000 per flight hour, with several out...
The top 1 percent of federal income taxpayers pays a very large and growing share of federal individual income tax: roughly 40–46 percent in recent years, with specific estimates clustering around 40%...
Members of Congress become eligible for a federal pension under different rules depending on which retirement system covers them: under FERS (most Members elected after 1984) a common threshold is age...
The top 1% of U.S. earners paid about 40–40.4% of federal income taxes in 2022, a share equivalent to roughly $854–864 billion in income-tax receipts and an average income‑tax rate in the mid‑20s perc...
In tax year 2022 the richest 1% of U.S. taxpayers earned roughly one-fifth to one-quarter of national income depending on the measure — estimates range from about 13% of wages (SSA measure) to roughly...
Multiple independent analyses of recent data converge on the same blunt point: the nation’s top 10 percent of income earners account for the lion’s share of —roughly three-quarters of the total—though...
’s 2021 inaugural fundraising was roughly two‑thirds the size of ’s 2017 haul: Biden’s inaugural committee reported raising about $61.8–$63.8 million, while Trump’s 2017 committee took in roughly $100...
Presidential vacations and travel have produced some of the largest, most scrutinized taxpayer bills for routine presidential duties: watchdog estimates put individual Mar‑a‑Lago/Florida visits at abo...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation timing ties to a modest deferred FERS annuity: reporting projects an annual starting pension of about $8,700 (high‑3 $174,000 × 1% × 5 years) payable at age 62, an...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s announced resignation effective Jan. 5, 2026, comes two days after she will have completed five full years of House service (sworn in Jan. 3, 2021), the minimum vesting period...
Marjorie Taylor Greene will be vested for a deferred FERS congressional annuity after just over five years of service if she leaves on Jan. 5, 2026; that annuity is payable at age 62 and widely estima...
There is no single, comprehensive public “transparency report” that consistently compares presidential travel costs across administrations; oversight is patchwork—GAO has produced trip-specific and ce...
JD Vance’s annual salary as a U.S. Senator is $174,000 per year, a statutory figure that has remained unchanged since 2009. Multiple contemporary summaries also note that after moving to the vice pres...
President Biden’s event and travel-related spending is presented in competing narratives: some analyses claim under Biden compared with predecessors, while travel comparisons show his . The available ...