Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) peddled a story to Politico of how suddenly she came face to face with rampant inflation when she was recently grocery shopping and says she put back a package of bacon when she saw the price was $9.99 per pound. Politico reports Porter is a single mother of three struggling to get by on the $174,000 annual salary for House members while maintaining two households. Unmentioned by Politico is that Porter’s Congressional finance report valued her assets at between $1.2 million and $2.8 million.
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), file screen image.
In a follow-up Twitter thread keyed to the Politico article, the millionaire Porter boasted of putting back $6.29 boxes of cereal and spending a lot of time searching for
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