The US Federal Communications Commission is to announce plans on Tuesday to reinstate so-called net neutrality rules governing broadband providers, according to people briefed on the matter.
So income shouldn’t be what stops you from running, it’s more than sufficient for living in DC. However, for maintaining two residences, that depends on where that other residence is.
You could run, but you would probably want them to raise their salary first. DC is expensive in of itself, let alone dual living residence.
Yeah, DC is expensive, but not unreasonably so. This article claims it’s about 50% more expensive than US average. A US Congressperson, without any leadership positions, makes $174,000, which is ~2.5x higher than the average household income (~$71k as on 2021).
So income shouldn’t be what stops you from running, it’s more than sufficient for living in DC. However, for maintaining two residences, that depends on where that other residence is.