'Pouring Salt Into the Wound' Amid Shutdown, Trump Signs Executive Order Freezing Pay

[G_j]

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'Pouring Salt Into the Wound' Amid Shutdown, Trump Signs Executive Order Freezing Pay of Nearly 2 Million Federal Workers

"It is shocking that federal employees are taking yet another financial hit. As if missed paychecks and working without pay were not enough, now they have been told that they don’t even deserve a modest pay increase."

byJake Johnson, staff writer

With hundreds of thousands of federal employees currently furloughed or working without pay due to the ongoing government shutdown, President Donald Trump delivered another blow to struggling workers on Friday by signing an executive order that will freeze the pay of around two million public employees in 2019.

"This is just pouring salt into the wound," declared Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents around 100,000 federal workers. "It is shocking that federal employees are taking yet another financial hit. As if missed paychecks and working without pay were not enough, now they have been told that they don't even deserve a modest pay increase."

As justification for the widely denounced move, Trump cited the need to "put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course."

The president's sudden concern for the budget deficit came just months after he signed into law $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, which have disproportionately flowed to wealthy Americans and large corporations.

..more..

[beachbum bob]

1. somehow he thinks all federal govt workers are democrats....can't wait for 2020 elections

as trump is making MORE democratic voters that will REMEMBER his screwing them

[no_hypocrisy]

2. At least once a day, I say to myself

[Ohiogal]

3. tRump enjoys the thought of leaving behind a smoldering ruin

How I hate him.

[allgood33]

4. All those Federal workers who voted for Trump, including contractors must feel betrayed now.

They should have known better. No GOP ever respected the Federal government or its workers. Most of those who hate the Feds, receive their sustenance from the Federal government and they live in red states.

[C_U_L8R]

5. You know what's not fiscally sustainable?

Multi-million dollar golf excursions that's what. And that's just the tip of it... how about a dumb wall that won't work? Or private jet excursions with security details for your grown children's tropical vacations? Or how about an insane trade policy that's costing us billions? Or unhinged behavior that scares Investors into a panic? Or the absurd debt you're racking up? Do we need to go on?

[ProudLib72]

11. Farm bills created to mitigate the effects of shitty tariffs

[Girard442]

6. If this were an episode of "The Sopranos"...

...you could pretty much count on the restaurant being torched for the insurance money by the end.

[Iliyah]

7. While his administration and cabinet

are vacationing lavishly, including his fucked up family.

[Scarsdale]

10. I read that

fake faced Ivanka was spotted jogging with a Secret Service detail.

[sharedvalues]

8. Gave $2 trillion to billionaires, now average people will pay t back

$2 trillion on a credit card for billionaires.

Guess who’s gonna pay that back, Republicans—it’s gonna be average Americans who can’t afford it.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. He already thinks gov't workers are all democrats, this ought to help

make that a reality.

I wonder what his Secret Service detail thinks of their charge freezing their pay.

[dem in texas]

12. Sorry Fat Turd AKA President

Gave the 1% and big corporations a whopping tax break that's not paid for, shut down the government and now freezing working people's pay - burns me up. The president has shown that he is sorry in every way that a person can be sorry (and stupid, too).

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. All for me and none for thee!

In the view of Trump and his cronies, workers deserve as little as the Old Boys can get by with paying them.


An article worth your time, if you missed it when catbyte posted it:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211594045