well, trumpf voting federal employees, enjoy your tax cuts along with the cancelled pay raises

[KG]

the trumpf says the country can't afford coz he's made america great again!


https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/08/30/trump-cancels-pay-raise-due-federal-workers-in-january/23512970/

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.

[rso]

1. Pay raise

This should help in flipping a couple of red congressional seats in Notthern Virginia.

[onenote]

3. Really only one -- Comstock (R) in the 10th District

There basically are three Congressional districts in northern Virginia where a lot of federal workers live: the 8th, 10th and 11th. The 8th and 11th are safe Democratic seats. Comstock was first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2016 in a district that went for Clinton in 2016 and Northam (for Governor) in 2017. She's vulnerable and was trailing her Democratic opponent in polling done in the spring. However, I haven't seen any recent polls and Comstock already is mounting a media campaign which, at least so far, doesn't appear to have been answered by the Democratic candidate (although its early). The decision on federal raises hopefully hurts Comstock, although my bet is that she'll use it as a way of showing how she is willing to stand up to Trump by supporting legislation to reinstate the pay raises.

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2. does this affect postal workers? if so, that has an impact on every congressional district.

[Kingofalldems]

7. No.

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8. somehow i had a feeling....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. After years of Federal worker pay and benefits declines

WaPo:

Cox said federal worker pay and benefits have been cut by more than $200 billion since 2011, and workers are currently earning 5 percent less than they did at the start of the decade.

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

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I thought that the economy was exploding because of their Tax Scam

and wealth was trickling down all over the rest of us?! No?

[Autumn]

6. Is it wrong to hope this hits government contractors too?

at least a couple of nasty trumpers I know that voted for his proposed tax breaks .

[haele]

9. It's worse than a cancelled 2% pay raise, it's a 5% - 20% pay cut depending on location.

He's gotten rid of the locality pay for federal employees.

This will affect over 50K federal employees in the San Diego Country region alone; they get 18% more than baseline on their pay because that's what makes their salary equivalent to that of a co-worker in, say, Oklahoma City that does the same job they do.

That's the difference between making a mortgage or rent when one has a federal job as, say, an IT clerk or a lower level administrator who is base-lined at making $45K a year; when one lives in an area where the median household has to be able to come up with $65K - $70K a year to buy or rent and maintain a house in a decent neighborhood that can support a family on and still pay for just the basics and save for retirement and the kid's education.
Which is one of those life expectations one is always working towards when one has a career, especially in Civil Service. Despite what the GOP and those who don't work for a living like to prate on about, "the Dignity of Work" doesn't by itself put food on plates and roofs over heads.
A prisoner on a chain gang can experience "the Dignity of Work". But that's not the Dignity of Living, of working to ensure your children can have opportunities and that one can retire in relative comfort and security.

Haele

[Golden Raisin]

10. Seems like he's sending an open invitation

to any legitimately disappointed, disgruntled or vindictive federal employee effected by this action to become a whistle-blower/leaker.