Pelosi On Spending Cuts: "The Cupboard is Bare; There's No More Cuts to Make": How can someone who works in D.C. as a representative say with a straight face that there just aren’t any more areas in the federal government that can be cut? As if they’ve already cut so much spending during the dreaded “sequestration,” right? The same government spending cuts that somehow still resulted in spending increases.

In D.C.-speak, a cut in a proposed increase constitutes a spending cut. This is how Obama can say with a straight face that he’s “slashed” the deficit by half in just over four years.

According to Pelosi, the well has run dry. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, she stated that there’s nothing left to cut:

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Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs.

"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded."

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Flashback

Pelosi’s Office Costs Taxpayers More Than 18k Monthly

June 14, 2010

In the midst of her state’s dire financial crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved her district office to a new state-of-the-art building with an award-winning “green” design at quadruple the monthly rent of the old location.
That means taxpayers in the (not so) Golden State will dish out nearly double the next highest monthly rent paid by a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. That’s a whopping $18,736 a month for 3,075 square-feet in downtown San Francisco, according to official congressional spending figures cited by the Capitol Hill newspaper that broke the story this week.

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Nancy Pelosi Net Worth

How much is Nancy Pelosi worth?

$35.5 Million

Related Flashback: 01/29/2010

Taxpayers' $101,000 includes Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'

Speaker's trips 'are more about partying than anything else'

It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.