White House to Freeze Pay for Federal Workers in 2019
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As the partial government shutdown grinds on, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday evening that would freeze pay for federal workers in 2019.
Trump telegraphed the move in his February budget request for fiscal 2019 when he proposed a pay freeze for the roughly 2.1 million federal civilian workers. That plan was confirmed by a formal announcement in August required to head off steep pay raises that would automatically take effect under a 1990 law, which presidents of both parties routinely override.
“We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 30 letter to congressional leaders. “These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified Federal workforce.”
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And the rich get richer.
So... No 10% raise for our military then?
I am curious why the seeder did not add this little nugget to his TDS article, or why the good congresswoman did not tweet about it. ..
Federal employees will never forget the three-year pay freeze from 2011 through 2013 under Obama
Now, to be fair, Obama did try to stop the freeze in 2012, but Congress overwrote it. However, libs are crying about 1 year when not a peep from Obama's 3 year freeze.
I really don't wonder why libs never mentioned it, but think rump is sooooooooo bad for doing it.
And they also forgot to mention the Billy started this mess -
"Years ago, a Republican president (George H.W. Bush) and a Democratic Congress passed the FEPCA law. It provided for a series of annual pay raises that were designed to gradually lift federal pay, on a city-by-city basis (locality pay) based on comparable wages for their counterparts in the private sector. But when he took office, President Bill Clinton balked at what he and advisers thought were overly generous raises. He recommended a 0 percent increase. Congress overrode him, but that set the pattern that continued through President George W. Bush. Pay raises that were smaller than called for by the FEPCA law. President Obama proposed a two-year federal pay raise freeze which Congress, happily, extended to three.
Joy will be unconfined until reality rears its ugly head. Until you run the numbers and see that the last really, really big raise you got was 2.9 percent. And that was in 2009. After that the 2010 raise was 1.5 percent followed by goose egg (as in nothing) in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Three years, no pay raises. The non-raise in 2013 was followed by a 1 percent increase in 2014, another 1 percent in 2015 and yet another 1 percent last January. Some people got a bit more, thanks to locality pay, but not much more.
In 2008, workers got a 2.5 percent raise, followed by 2.9 percent in 2009."
Probably because it's off topic to this topic, ya suppose
Apparently, the mods feel different, and rightfully so. The topic is pay freezes for federal workers. I simply surmised as to why the seeder failed to mention that the liberal god Obama did the same x 3 and not a peep from you.
We really know the truth, and "off topic" ain't it.