Lot of us regulars are getting 1% still….
Some lay-off’s…..
Biden fronted this and both Democrats and Republicans have tactfully agreed to the move….
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Donald Trump wanted to strip Federal Civil workers job and promotion protections and promises to work on do that if re-elected….
The military is set to receive a comparable increase in January in the $886 billion defense bill that Congress approved this month.
Biden’s executive order is the final step in the annual process of determining how much government workers will be paid the following year. That process has often featured a divisive debate in Congress over the value of federal workers and what they should earn compared to their private sector counterparts.
Republicans have long asserted that people employed by private companies are paid significantly less than federal workers. Democrats, who count the unions representing federal employees as key allies, point to studies concluding the opposite.
One such report — published in November by the Federal Salary Council, a group of government labor and management leaders — concluded that federal salaries on average lag 27.5 percent behind those of comparable private-sector jobs. Such studies have never settled the issue, however, as the debate often seems to reflect a broader philosophical clash over the role of government in American society.
Congress has in some years adjusted the annual White House proposal on federal pay up or down. But this year, after Biden proposed the 5.2 percent raise in March in his budget for fiscal 2024, Republicans in Congress — engulfed for months in a partisan battle over raising the country’s debt limit and then in an internal struggle over the House speakership — have been silent on the raise this year. Absent any action by Congress, the recommended raise goes into effect by default….