A day after President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced they will donate 5 percent of their paychecks to the Treasury, Secretary of State John Kerry is following suit, vowing to donate 5 percent of his $183,500 salary.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Mr. Kerry will give $9,175 to a charity for department employees, rather than the Treasury, according to the Huffington Post.
The former Massachusetts senator was worth more than $184 million at the time of his 2011 Senate financial disclosure form.
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His wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune, is reportedly worth more than $1 billion.
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