“”He’s pocketing $150,000 tax dollars per week, Plus.””
Come on - that can’t be true...He’d earn more in 4 weeks at that rate than the president earns (were he to take the whole paycheck) in a year!!
“”I imagine that, as an appointee of the DOJ, his remuneration will be determined by DOJ pay scales and that it will therefore likely be less than the pay of AG Jeff Sessions.
AG Sessions, I believe, is paid at Executive Schedule Level 1, which for 2017 has been set at about $210,000.””
observer.com
ABC News reports that $5 million of taxpayer funds have gone towards S/P travel, office supplies, and dozens of federal agents, attorneys and staffers.
Mueller’s salary totals $161,900 while senior FBI officials make roughly $130,000 per year.
Republican lawmakers have used the pricetag to denounce Mueller’s probe as a partisan witch-hunt. After President Donald Trump called the investigation “a taxpayer funded charade,” Congressman Steve King came to his defense and called for legislation to avoid “a never-ending investigation that could go on for two presidential terms.”
“For them to say to us, ‘Vote for an open-ended appropriation into a Mueller witch hunt,’ I think you’ll see significant objection there,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told POLITICO in late October.