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    Trump issues executive order freezing federal workers' pay in 2019

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/polit...eze/index.html

    Military excluded. Says he is worried about the budget. On the other hand, he wants $5 billion more in spending for his wall expansion and $50 billion more for the Department of Defense and the tax cuts will add an estimated $1 trillion over ten years (average $100 billion a year) to the debt as well. He wants more money but less spending?

    President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers' pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year.

    The move, which nixes a 2.1% across-the-board pay raise that was set to take effect in January, comes as hundreds of thousands of federal employees are expecting to begin the new year furloughed or working without pay because of a partial government shutdown.

    Trump told lawmakers he planned to scrap the 2019 pay bump for federal workers in August, saying the federal budget couldn't support it. In addition to the 2.1% pay increase, the executive order also cancels a yearly adjustment of paychecks based on the region of the country where workers are posted, called the "locality pay increase," that was due to take effect in January.

    The move does not affect a 2.6% pay increase for US troops next year that was passed as part of the massive defense spending bill Trump signed in August.

    Lawmakers could include a pay raise for 2019 in a spending bill to reopen the government, but negotiations have been at an impasse over money for Trump's border wall.

    About 380,000 federal employees are on furlough and 420,000 are working without pay as the new year approaches.

    In a letter to House and Senate leaders in August, Trump described the pay increase as "inappropriate."

    "We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases," the President wrote.

    Trump also stressed that a pay freeze would not affect the federal government's ability to attract qualified workers. He cited his statutory authority to adjust pay out of "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare."
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 12-29-2018 at 08:31 PM.



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    Good, they are overpaid and over pensioned, almost all of them destroy wealth and production rather create or preserve it.
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    He should give everybody at least a 10% salary reduction.
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    Congress not included.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/polit...ain/index.html

    Trump misleads about military pay raises again

    President Donald Trump incorrectly told troops in Iraq on Wednesday that he gave them their first pay raise in more than 10 years -- a falsehood he has repeatedly told.

    Speaking to troops at Al Asad Air Base during his surprise visit to Iraq, Trump told troops: "You protect us. We are always going to protect you. And you just saw that, 'cause you just got one of the biggest pay raises you've ever received. ... You haven't gotten one in more than 10 years. More than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one."

    In fact, military pay has increased every year for more than three decades. It was raised 2.4% in 2018 and then 2.6% in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. The 2.6% pay raise is the largest in the past 9 years.

    "They had plenty of people that came up, they said, 'You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3%, we could make it 2%, we could make it 4%,'" Trump told the troops about the latest pay raise. "I said, 'No. Make it 10%. Make it more than 10%.'"

    'Cause it's been a long time, it's been more than 10 years. Been more than 10 years, that's a long time," Trump said, repeating the false claim.



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