Trump Blocks Federal Workers' Pay Hike While They're Out Of A Job

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Federal workers just can’t catch a break.

In the middle of a partial shutdown of the federal government, President Donald Trump ordered a pay freeze for federal workers late Friday, blocking an automatic pay increase from going into effect Jan. 1.

Trump said months ago that he was seeking the freeze. It was ultimately made possible by Congress, which never passed a pay hike before the end of the year. The GOP-controlled Senate had signed off on a bipartisan 1.9 percent increase, but the GOP-controlled House left it unaddressed.

If Trump had done nothing, the federal pay formula would have enacted an automatic 2.1 percent pay increase. But the inaction by Congress gave him an opening to make the increase zero through executive order.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-freezes-federal-pay-as-shutdown-grinds-on_us_5c27d37de4b0407e90833219

What an asshole!!!

[Leghorn21]

1. Yeah, but somebody told him to do that, right? He don't give a shit. Somebody said, HEY, pick

up your Sharpie and sign this thing, so he did.

I don’t know who engineered this, but this wasn’t FUCKHEAD45’s idea, no way.

[NCjack]

2. Maybe it was his idea. He has a history of cheating contractors

out of their pay.