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.
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Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 1d
Can't afford to pay them, but definitely can afford to give everyone 5k. Things are going great! Better than ever!
Madison420@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I mean we can't, giving everyone 5k ends up as like 1 trillion in unleveraged debt.
PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
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.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d
Gotta pay the brownshirts
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1d
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the additional $2.8 billion of weapons being given to Israel
BooBees@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 1d
Iran war is costing $2billion a month that we know of
AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
Israel gettin another raise, fuck this orange pedo,
tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
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.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1d
Feeling special yet magas?
rounding_error@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
“””fiscal responsibility”””
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M "We want to put them in trauma"
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d
This has Russell Vought written all over it
Cheebus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
fuck 12
darthsundhaft@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d