Trump cancels pay raise due federal workers in January

[Miles Archer]

Trump cancels pay raise due federal workers in January

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has told Congress he is canceling a pay raise that most civilian federal employees were due to receive in January, citing budgetary constraints.

Trump informed House and Senate leaders in a letter sent Thursday.

Trump says in the letter that locality pay increases would cost $25 billion, on top of a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for most civilian government employees.

He cites the costs and says: “We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases.” Trump says he’s determined that for 2019 “both across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero.”

https://www.apnews.com/b83e65d63f29472992cafaebe8f67b59

[a kennedy]

1. FAWK him........

[enough]

2. Billions in corporate tax cuts, not enough for federal workers. NT

[lunasun]

3. Keep Morale low

[Skidmore]

4. Punishment

for millions of leakers this paranoid fool fears.

[KCDebbie]

5. That Orange phucker!

[Frustratedlady]

6. That will buy a lot of votes from his base. Not! What was he thinking?

He needs to pull back that tax break he gave all his rich friends. I'm sure they'd gladly return it...loving him as they do...

Giving them such a gift doesn't put the money back in the market, but giving a raise to the government workers would...get it circulating.

He is simply governing by gut.

[fescuerescue]

22. I don't think his base is government workers

They definitely lean Blue.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Rob the working class to pay the rich. Trump-RepubliCon eCONomics. Remind voters. Keep brands glued.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Well well,this just moves more voters

towards the Dem Ticket. If you want to F up a two car funeral,mess with the drivers pay checks.

[Freethinker65]

9. As he plans his next 4-5 day taxpayer funded Trump property weekend

And finds a charity to visit close to his next ego boosting political rally so taxpayers payers pick up the tab.

[rso]

10. Pay raise

This will help flip a couple of red congressional seats in Nortthern Virginia.

[Johonny]

11. That will stimulate the economy

He does understand federal employees buy things and such...

[LanternWaste]

12. The Ghost of Christmas Ass nt

[benld74]

13. Another 3 steps back this year as well

[Miles Archer]

14. Rep. Eric Swalwell

Rep. Eric Swalwell
‏
Verified account

@RepSwalwell

To the hard-working federal employees Trump just screwed by cutting pay — the folks who run our parks, protect our communities, & serve our veterans: YOU MATTER. If billionaires can get tax cuts, you should get a COLA. You work hard for America & that should add up to something.

10:24 AM - 30 Aug 2018

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

30. +1

[ooky]

15. What a swell guy. Good 'ol Dick Tater.

"We'll be fiscally sustainable with your pay raises but not.

Give back our damn money you stole.

[jmowreader]

16. Congress needs to zero out funding for Air Force One in retaliation

If hardworking federal employees have to suffer so Trump can have his tax cut, then so should Trump's golf game.

Didn't that imbecile say he wasn't going to have any time to play golf?

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. ....

[tavernier]

18. And cutting out scraps for the widows and orphans.

More bucks for the mar-a-lago gang.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. What a prick!

[helpisontheway]

20. Someone in a military group I'm in called him an a-hole because of this

Admin quickly closed the thread..😂

[Vinca]

21. He blows through taxpayer dollars for his own needs like a drunk in a liquor store.

What a petty, shitty, miserable pile of flesh to screw over federal employees this way.

[smirkymonkey]

31. This!

I don't even have words any more for how angry I am and how much I hate the miserable, bloated, orange POS.

[tanyev]

23. But there's plenty of money for a Space Force?

[edhopper]

24. He really wants to

tear it all down.

He delights in fucking over people.

[bluestarone]

25. AH! well gotta have the BILLIONS

pay the FARMERS YOU KNOW!!!!!! NOW WE KNOW RIGHT????

[saidsimplesimon]

26. Golfing fees are needed to

pump up profits for his dwindling empire, must expand to non-members with no privilege or benefits. Another flim flam con for his adoring cheerleaders? Greedy man not satisfied with putin's crumbs looks to fleece the crowd?

[MontanaMama]

27. Good thing the military parade

got postponed then...

[jmowreader]

33. Watch him...

Next year he'll cut the troops' pay AND demand the parade.

Leading the announcer to say things like...

"And now I present to you, Mr. President, the 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment from Fort Stewart, Georgia. "Glory's Guns" have fought in...the battalion has stopped...the battalion has currently pirouetted to the left and is now facing the White House...the battalion is raising its cannons...the battalion is currently scaring the shit out of me...the battalion is currently passing live rounds into their guns...I'm getting the fuck out of here...good luck, Mr. President..."

[Totally Tunsie]

28. Then stay in Washington, you jackhole, instead of your $3M weekends playing golf.

Oh, that's right...you "donate" your $400k salary to charity (after taking the tax deduction, of course) so that makes you an OK kinda' guy.

tRump: Always screw the little guy.

[mnhtnbb]

29. That ought to guarantee a record turnout of civilian federal employees to vote in November.

That orange a$$hole is not only a greedy sack of $hit, but a completely stupid one, too.

[Demovictory9]

35. He behaves as if only his base matters. We shall see in November

[NCjack]

32. That's the contribution of the Federal workers to Trump's tax cut. nt

[Demovictory9]

34. targeted hit job. Just like the tax cuts. largest percent work in California or other liberal stat

es

[Blue_true]

37. I don't agree with that.

Red state economies are very reliant on federal, state, county and city jobs. In Florida, the ratio of government to private sector jobs is very high. Most blue states, except for Vermont, Rhode Island, Nevada and New Mexico, have diverse economies. Also, the longer a state has been dominated by democrats, the more diverse and vibrant it's economy.

[Danmel]

36. He's such a dick