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05/18/2026

Us against them

Members of Congress are literally suing the government right now for back pay, claiming their $174,000 salary freeze was unconstitutional.

Some could collect up to $419,000 each in backpay. The federal minimum wage they set for everyone else is $7.25 and hasn't moved since 2009.

I'll let that marinate for a second.

The base salary for a member of Congress has been frozen at $174,000 since 2009. That puts them in the top 5% of American earners.

They also get fully subsidized healthcare, a pension after just 5 years of service, and a travel allowance that covers commuting between their home state and Washington.

And some of them are in court right now arguing they've been financially wronged.

Meanwhile the federal minimum wage, which Congress controls completely and could change tomorrow if they wanted to, has been sitting at $7.25 since July 2009. Same year. Not a coincidence.

A full-time minimum wage worker earns about $15,000 a year before taxes. In no state in America does that cover rent, groceries, and basic expenses.

The Congressional Research Service confirmed that Congress has blocked its own automatic pay adjustment SEVENTEEN consecutive times since 2009 while those same spending bills never once included a minimum wage increase.

To be fair, there's a legitimate argument that $174,000 doesn't go as far as it sounds when you're maintaining two households in two of the most expensive cities in the country. Washington D.C. and most congressional districts aren't cheap places to live.

But that argument lands very differently when the people making it are also the ones who haven't raised the wage floor for 30 million Americans in 17 years.

The lawsuit is real. The back pay claims are real. And the minimum wage is still $7.25.

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