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she is worth less than $500,000
That sounds like a lot of money still, but I'd imagine public figures can easily leverage that to wealth so makes sense
Do you live in the USA? That's not even the price of an "okay" median house in a middle-class neighborhood. That's a nice chunk to have in the bank or have in investments, but if you ever want to retire at a decent age and not spend your later years eating canned beans in a mobile home, you need to save up more than a million unless you have some specific plans for your future.
A lot of people have a lot of huge misconceptions about the wealth in the US. We may be the richest nation but we spend the most also, and the costs are skyrocketing beyond even the highest normal wages. You simply cannot own a house on a single income. In many other countries $20 USD will get you a week's worth of hot meals, here you can accidentally spend $50 running out to the grocery store for several ingredients for dinner or a half dozen frozen meals.
Her salary jumped to like 20x what it was before she became a politician so she’s well on her way to beating them all in a decade or so