MSNBC host Rachel Maddow praised President Obama's commitment to return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury Wednesday evening.
Maddow stated the act "will remind us all" the sequester is causing real pain:
RACHEL MADDOW: [...] That announcement came first, but after President Obama said today he's going to do the same thing. Quote "the president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal government affected by the sequester, he'll contribute a portion of his salary back to the Treasury." So President Obama is giving up 5 percent of his presidential salary for the whole year, giving it back to the Treasury. That will not make a difference to the workers forced into pay cuts and furloughs, because Congress has not yet undone the sequester, but it will put a spotlight on it. It will remind us all that the sequester is happening, and it's causing real pain.
