Fed workers go without pay while adm. officials due a 10K raise

[saidsimplesimon]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/while-federal-workers-go-without-pay-senior-trump-administration-officials-are-poised-to-get-dollar10000-raises/ar-BBRNQP3

Washington Post

While federal workers go without pay, senior Trump administration officials are poised to get $10,000 raises

Lisa Rein, Peter Whoriskey
12 hrs ago

While many federal workers go without pay and the government is partially shut down, hundreds of senior Trump political appointees are poised to receive annual raises of about $10,000 a year.

The pay raises for Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators and even Vice President Pence are scheduled to go into effect beginning Jan. 5 without legislation to stop them, according to documents issued by the Office of Personnel Management and experts in federal pay.

The raises appear to be an unintended consequence of the shutdown: When lawmakers failed to pass bills Dec. 21 to fund multiple federal agencies, they allowed an existing pay freeze to lapse. The pay freeze for top federal executives was enacted by Congress in 2013 and renewed each year since then. The raises will occur because that cap will expire on Saturday without legislative action, allowing raises to kick in that have accumulated over those years but never took effect. The raises start with paychecks to be issued next week.

[Delmette2.0]

1. And yet the Federal minimum wage goes unchanged!!!!

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Daily assaults on the working

class are the daily mantra and always supported by Republicans and their leader.

Let's teach them another lesson at the polls next year. Republicans don't expect Democrats to fight, let's surprise them with unity.

[Delmette2.0]

3. You have that right!

We are attacked from every side, top and bottom.

On a side note but still part of the attack, I found this on DU and finally got around to listening . This is Medicare for all explained. Interviews from health care providers having to work with our current messed up system.

This should be on the Greatest Page.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016223256