With Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, federal spending has gone up 91 percent.
Federal spending unrelated to keeping America safe has almost doubled since 2007.
Since Nancy Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House in 2007, federal spending has skyrocketed. How liberal are the Democrats with your money? Just take a look at federal compensation these days.
Federal workers are now paid 42 percent more than private-sector employees: $71,206 per year compared to $50,028 in the private sector. In Washington, D.C., the disparity is even greater: the 372,041 Washington-area federal employees are paid – on average – $94,047 per year.
And just last year, the Democrat-controlled Congress increased federal compensation even more. They gave paid parental leave to the entire federal workforce, estimated to cost taxpayers about $1 billion over five years, a benefit rarely offered in the private sector.
It doesn’t stop there: President Obama and the Democrats are on a hiring binge. By the end of this year, President Obama will have expanded the total number of federal employees by 273,000, a 14.5 percent increase.
Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues just don’t get it: their spending is out-of-control. They are driving our nation deeper into debt as they recklessly reward their political allies with federal positions and high pay at the expense of job growth in the private sector.
Pete Sessions believes America's economic challenges are not solved by throwing taxpayer money at federal agencies. Click here to read about Pete's support of spending cuts.
