In a move that drew outrage from labor unions and progressives, President Donald Trump this week quietly took steps to slash a scheduled pay raise for millions of federal workers from 2.5% to 1% due to supposed concerns about "keeping the nation on a fiscally sustainable course.""I have determined that for 2021 the across-the-board base pay increase will be limited to 1.0%," Trump said in a message to Congress on Monday. "This alternative pay plan decision will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified federal workforce."The president's proposed "adjustment" to the scheduled pay raise will take effect in January 2021 unless Congress passes legislation to override the change.Just a day after his message to Congress, Trump tweeted, "BEST USA ECONOMY IN HISTORY!" - Common Dreams
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Trump screws federal workers
You'd think this would end the possibility of any of these workers, except for a relative handful of hopeless diehards, voting for another term of this miserable, repugnant clown show. If that's not the case already.
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My nomination for who will be the next for Trump to fire is Labor Department Secretary Eugene Scalia ... after all, it is his department that published "The Consumer Price Index" which reported in January on a seasonally adjusted basis,"Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.5 percent before seasonal adjustment."
ReplyDeleteSorta makes the rationale for a 2.5% wage increase understandable ... but understanding is not something that Trump does well.
BTW ... where is the anger that Trump has announced reallocation of $3.8 billion in critical defense funds to build a border wall ?
-$1.501 billion from National Guard and Reserve equipment, including the entirety of FY20 National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account funding (trucks, generators, spare parts, radios, other gear);
-$379 million from F-35 (2 x F-35C aircraft and some advanced procurement);
-$155 million from V-22 (2 x aircraft);
-$180 million from P-8 (1 x aircraft);
-$911 million from shipbuilding (LHA and Expeditionary Fast Transport);
-$365 million from C-130J ($196 million from Air Force Reserve and $169 from Overseas Contingency Operations;
-$180 million from Air Force Light Attack aircraft program;
-$160 million from MQ-9 (8 x aircrafts)