Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White · Aired Sep 16, 2026
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The salary for the President of the United States is half a million dollars a year.
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The law that sets the President's pay, 3 U.S.C. 102, puts the salary at $400,000 a year, a figure Congress set in 1999 that took effect in 2001. The same section adds a $50,000 expense allowance for official duties, and unused money goes back to the Treasury. So half a million is in the neighborhood if you add the allowances on top, but the salary itself is $400,000, not $500,000.
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Is it true that the salary for the President of the United States is half a million dollars a year?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. C. 102, puts the salary at $400,000 a year, a figure Congress set in 1999 that took effect in 2001. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2555 - Ron White, aired Sep 16, 2026, at 1:52:44. The supporting source is govinfo.gov, linked below.
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