🇺🇸 The US House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced a measure to cut Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s salary to $1, attaching the pay cut as an amendment to the lower chamber’s Defense Department appropriations bill.

House lawmakers agreed to the amendment by voice vote.

The measure was brought by US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who said

"Secretary Austin has not fulfilled his job duties. As a matter of fact, he’s destroying our military,"

Greene pointed toward a decline in military recruitment, the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Pentagon’s approach to the Ukraine conflict as reasons to reduce Austin’s salary.