Wow!
This guy is doing this to people who could be voting in two months?
Republican lawmakers are gonna have a hard time defending this…..
Look for them to attach the expected raise to something Trump can’t veto….
Really?
This guy couldn’t care less?
President Trump on Thursday announced that he would cancel a scheduled 2.1 percent across-the-board pay increase for federal workers, as well as locality pay increases.
“In light of our Nation’s fiscal situation, Federal employee pay must be performance-based, and aligned strategically toward recruiting, retaining, and rewarding high-performing Federal employees and those with critical skill sets,” Trump wrote in a letter to the Speaker of the House and the president of the Senate.
The proposal sets up a fight with Congress, which could effectively overturn the act in upcoming spending legislation. Without such intervention, the move would affect most of the 2.1 million federal employees around the nation, about 1.7 million of which live in areas outside of the Washington, D.C., metro area.
Members of the military, on the other hand, are on schedule to receive a 2.6 percent pay increase….
Ah, People gonna vote for lawmakers that back a guy cancelling their raise?
twitter….
West Wing Reports
@WestWingReport
Approximate number of civilian govt. workers/voters in the following states will not get raises in 2019, because of @realDonaldTrump’s decision today:
#FL: 79K
#GA: 72K
#IA: 9K
#KY: 23K
#MICH: 26K
#MO: 34K
#NC: 44K
#OH: 50K
#PA: 60K
#TX: 114K
#VA: 136K
#WV: 15K
#WISC: 15K
(OPM)
Well, :somebody’sM gotta pay for all those job-creating tax cuts, doesn’t he (or she) ?
And according to conservative/libertarian dogma, government workers aren’t the wealth creators that stock investors are.