President Trump announced Thursday that he was canceling a pay raise due to most civilian federal employees in January, citing budgetary reasons.Read more here.
In a letter to congressional leaders, the president wrote that locality pay increases would cost $25 billion. Those increases would come on top of a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for most civilian employees.
"We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases," Trump wrote before announcing that for 2019, "both across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero."
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Monday, September 03, 2018
A do something President!
Have you read about President Trump's decision to halt pay raises for federal civilian employees? Here is an excerpt from Fox News.
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