President Trump cancels Federal Pay Raises (wage, salaries, legal, drugs)

[tb4000]

Now let's see someone try and spin this. Yes, the military deserves what they get paid, but so do the rest of the people on the government payroll.

[RamenAddict]

Apparently there is some misunderstanding about how the federal budget works. He can recommend no raises, but it isn’t up to him. The senate had already recommended a raise and the house did not address it in their budget.

[Grlzrl]

Originally Posted by tb4000

Now let's see someone try and spin this. Yes, the military deserves what they get paid, but so do the rest of the people on the government payroll.

Hmmmm....military people put their lives on the line to protect our country...government employees? Not so much.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by zach_33

Hundreds of billions in tax breaks for the rich is A-okay, but for people who actually do all the work, a modest cost-of-living adjustment is not appropriate. MAGA nation will justify it because it is all deep state federal workers, but Trump and his cronies will be coming after MAGA nation next. That's paycheck won't go as far in an inflationary environment, will it?

Allowing people to keep their own money is a crime now?

[Eli34]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Allowing people to keep their own money is a crime now?

By that logic, why don’t we pay no taxes at all?

[msgsing]

Well that was certainly a smart well thought move. Look over your shoulder the midterms are coming the midterms are coming.

[legalsea]

Here is one handy table showing the pay raises since 2008. As noted in it, we Federal employees received Zero increases in 2011, 2012 and 2013:


https://www.federalpay.org/gs/raises

[boxus]

Originally Posted by Grlzrl

Good. Starve the beast. Maybe some of them will quit. Seems there area large number of jobs in the private sector available now.

This will just starve those that are not part of the beast, and are just the rank-and-file. Those who are schedule C, SES, or a well positioned GS-14+ manager will just get extra bonuses because the beast will ensure it gets fed.

[Enigma777]

Take away a lousy 2% from workers (2 million of them, excluding the postal workers), but give $12 billion to the farmers he screwed with tariffs?

Or maybe they need it for the Trump family travel and vacations. Those SS bills for money paid to the Trump properties and other resorts must be pretty huge.

[CALGUY]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

I have a feeling there will be a few fewer federal employees who will be voting republican in November.

I have a feeling there will be fewer federal employees come January.

Bob.