“A proposed continuing resolution "includes a 40% pay increase for Congress.”
What FactCheck.org found
A continuing resolution put forward by Republicans leading the House Appropriations Committee does attempt to allow an automatic congressional pay increase, but the maximum possible raise in 2025 would be 3.8%, not 40%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Elon Musk (Co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency) made this claim around 18 December 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 December 2024. Its rating was “False”.
Elon Musk has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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