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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:01 PM Mar 2023

A senator who ran a multimillion-dollar plumbing business claimed he only took a $50,000 salary. His [View all]

His financial statements show otherwise.

A Republican senator drastically understated how much money he made in the private sector as he argued with the head of the Teamsters union at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday.

While lambasting Teamsters president Sean O'Brien for his nearly $200,000 salary, Oklahoma's Senator Markwayne Mullin claimed that he paid himself a salary of just $50,000 when he ran a plumbing business. But his financial disclosures show his salary was nearly $92,000 in 2012, the year he was first elected to Congress. His total income was even greater.

"What did you make when you owned your company?" O'Brien asked.

"When I made my company? I kept my salary down at about $50,000 a year because I invested every penny into it," Mullin replied.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-senator-who-ran-a-multimillion-dollar-plumbing-business-claimed-he-only-took-a-50-000-salary-his-financial-statements-show-otherwise/ar-AA18nDMj

Of course he's a Republican.
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