While thousands of federal workers go without pay, Trump quietly froze pay for ALL federal employees

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Swing Left @swingleft 26m26 minutes ago
While thousands of federal workers go without pay, Trump quietly froze pay for ALL federal employees in 2019—the same week he lied about a pay increase for the military.

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers' pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year.

The move, which nixes a 2.1% across-the-board pay raise that was set to take effect in January, comes as hundreds of thousands of federal employees are expecting to begin the new year furloughed or working without pay because of a partial government shutdown.

Trump told lawmakers he planned to scrap the 2019 pay bump for federal workers in August, saying the federal budget couldn't support it. In addition to the 2.1% pay increase, the executive order also cancels a yearly adjustment of paychecks based on the region of the country where workers are posted, called the "locality pay increase," that was due to take effect in January...

About 380,000 federal employees are on furlough and 420,000 are working without pay as the new year approaches

read: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics/trump-executive-order-federal-workers-pay-freeze/index.html

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[walkingman]

1. Maybe this will wake up the workers of this country and they will

clearly see the hypocrisy of of this President and the GOP as a whole. Trump without apology has funneled billions of tax payer money to the farmers for a crisis he created and yet everyday working people are the victim of his false bravado of this "great economy". If he hadn't given a huge tax break to the corporations and top wealth holders of America we wouldn't have the huge deficits for the year. This goes beyond Trump, it is a pox of greed and corporate control of congress. Time to wake up ad stop this madness before it is too late. Time for a Democratic Revolution!!

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3. I hope they remember Trump and his cohorts already giving themselves a huge raise

...upon entering office.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. More winning.

[democratisphere]

4. CONald destructo at it again!

Kicking federal workers after taking them down!

[malaise]

8. Love the CONald

[TreasonousBastard]

5. It wasn't that quietly-- I saw it all over the news. And, yes...

they are scum.

Reduce the taxes on the owners and reduce the pay of the workers.

MAGA my rosy red ass.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. He hates Americans

[Runningdawg]

7. And they said he was afraid to visit the troops because he might get shot LOL

[malaise]

9. Send this everywhere

and get thee to the greatest page
Vile does not describe this monster

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I really think the man is just a puppet and someone else

is calling the shots. Putin or Putin's people?

He just makes one destructive move after another. He doesn't know enough yo do that by himself.