Nonsense. Your staff is paid out of your office operating expense. You do not have to have two places to live. What you need is a home in your district and room in DC. You apparently think that the $174,000 (and that doesn’t count all the other perks) are the only funds available to these ‘servants’.
This is a ridiculous amount of money to pay those who are supposed to represent us
Goldstargop thinks Putin and Russia are friends of the free world, so he may be operating from a different frame of reference. Putin supposedly has $75b to his name, so what's a measly $174K a year compared to that?