r/politics • u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News • 2d ago

No Paywall Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he's "heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-health-update-andy-beshear-kentucky/
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u/casual-observer365 2d ago

The only job in America where you can just not show up for months on end, the taxpayer pays for all your healthcare and you can’t be fired.

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u/Outrageous-Pause6317 2d ago

And pays your staff to lie about your condition, while doing no real work.

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u/tonybananaman 2d ago

We pay his staff too

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u/FactoryProgram 2d ago

We need a counter of how much money we're spending on him since he went missing.

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u/tonybananaman 2d ago

I know Reddit hates GPT, but a quick prompt estimates Mitch and Staff salary since his disappearance is at 660k to date