Trump moves to freeze pay for federal workers amid government shutdown

[tulc]

Trump moves to freeze pay for federal workers amid government shutdown

Trump signed the executive order late Friday afternoon. The military would not be affected.

Trump and federal lawmakers are still collecting paychecks during the partial shutdown, but many federal workers are not. Congress generally votes to pay federal employees retroactively after shutdowns, but this one is expected to drag on into the new year as Trump pushes for funding for a wall across the southern border.

This is just pouring salt into the wound,” said Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 employees at 33 federal agencies and departments. “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.”

tulc(is going to need more coffee soon)

 

[The Barbarian]

If Trump would defer the lavish tax cut he gave himself and his children for one year, it would go a long way toward paying the guys who actually get things done for us.

Don't hold your breath.