In the worst possible optics, senior-level Trump administration appointees are slated to get $10,000 raises while about 800,000 federal workers don’t see a dime of their paychecks due to the shutdown.
According to a Friday Washington Post report, Congress has renewed legislation placing a cap on pay for top government employees every year since 2013. By failing to pass legislation to keep the government funded, they allowed the current pay freeze to expire. If lawmakers don’t take action by Saturday, the accumulated raises will begin showing up on the paychecks of Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries and even Vice President Mike Pence.
The Democratic-majority House included an extension of the pay freeze in a spending bills package passed Thursday night, but the Senate will likely not take it up since it omits wall funding and President Donald Trump would not sign it.
not surprising at all.
with the shutdown and no paychecks going out, trump thinks it’s a basket full of money free for the taking.
to pay off some loyalty fees.
super grifters for sure. it’s not like they earned it
Not only that, he ordered that federal employees do not get a pay rise in 2019
At least the military got 10% !
MAGA = Make America Grovel Again
Well, many people are saying the administration had the most successful two years of any president. And how could you talk about impeaching a president whose administration officials just got $10K raises? IT MAKES NO SENSE COME ON PEOPLE.