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."
Trump's executive order—which largely flew under the radar of national news coverage—makes official his announcement earlier this year that he would cancel a scheduled 2.1 percent pay raise for 1.8 million non-military federal workers. As justification, 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 to wealthy Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/29/pouring-salt-wound-amid-shutdown-trump-signs-executive-order-freezing-pay-nearly-2
"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."
Trump's executive order—which largely flew under the radar of national news coverage—makes official his announcement earlier this year that he would cancel a scheduled 2.1 percent pay raise for 1.8 million non-military federal workers. As justification, 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 to wealthy Americans.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/29/pouring-salt-wound-amid-shutdown-trump-signs-executive-order-freezing-pay-nearly-2
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