The president is officially planning for a pay freeze on both base and locality pay for most civilian federal employees, citing fiscal responsibility and economic conditions.
“I have determined that for 2027, base pay and locality pay for civilian federal employees will not change from the 2026 rates,” Trump wrote in his alternative pay plan letter, quietly transmitted to Congress on Wednesday. “This decision will maintain fiscal responsibility without harming the government’s ability to recruit and retain well qualified employees.”
The planned federal pay freeze makes an exception for federal law enforcement personnel, who are expected to receive a 3.8% raise starting in January. The larger raise for law enforcement is meant to improve recruitment and retention for “critical law enforcement roles,” the letter states.
Vote for Trump in the mid-terms, and he’ll make sure your pay doesn’t rise!
Too bad Congress doesn’t have anything to say about this. This is not at all in his power to do if they’d stop letting him be a dictator.
Can’t afford to pay them, but definitely can afford to give everyone 5k. Things are going great! Better than ever!
Trump doesn’t want to not pay them, he just wants to pick and choose who gets paid for their work, so as to force them to do his bidding regardless of what the law says. He’d reset everyone to min wage, or even not paying them by default, if he could.
I mean we can’t, giving everyone 5k ends up as like 1 trillion in unleveraged debt.
You totally can, though - how many trillions do you think M4A would save? Every year you keep your parasitic healthcare system is giving away billions/trillions of dollars.
Also, the money doesn’t just disappear - when normal people have more money they spend it, which stimulates the economy and thus increases tax revenue.
I’m not saying you should give everyone $5k - it would be more effective to spend it on public housing, for instance, but the US can afford to do so.
I’m for Medicare since it’s valuable service, just giving people 5k is only a recipe for inflation.
Gotta pay the brownshirts
I’m sure this has nothing to do with the additional $2.8 billion of weapons being given to Israel
Iran war is costing $2billion a month that we know of
Israel gettin another raise, fuck this orange pedo,
The freeze won’t harm the government’s ability to retain and recruit, but law enforcement needs a 3.8% raise to improve retention and recruitment. Got it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M “We want to put them in trauma”
They are so fucking evil. Do people realize that the government is the largest socialism entity in our country? Not only for defense, but all government jobs are socialism. All of these people thinking it wouldn’t be them and now being fired. The part I don’t understand the most, why go after air traffic controllers? Even the billionaires have to use them, right? Maybe they have their own air traffic control army? Idk.
Aww shit, I shouldn’t have googled him:
42nd and 44th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Vought is a self-described Christian nationalist.[11] In 2021, he wrote in Newsweek that the United States should be recognized as a Christian nation in which its “rights and duties are understood to come from God”. He has praised his association with the Christian nationalist William E. Wolfe and repeated several of his views, including an article in The Daily Caller stating that “Jesus Christ wasn’t an open-borders socialist”.[44] According to Mother Jones, Vought was influenced by the works of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his senior year of high school, particularly deriving a sense of engaging in the world to serve God.[12]
Then you definitely shouldn’t listen to this.
Feeling special yet magas?
“””fiscal responsibility”””
This has Russell Vought written all over it
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fuck 12
