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Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:47 PM Jan 2019

Mike Pence is getting a $12,800 raise tomorrow!!! and 100's of Trump appointees

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/04/while-federal-workers-go-without-pay-senior-trump-administration-officials-are-poised-get-raises/

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

The pay of Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to rise from $230,700 to $243,500

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Mike Pence is getting a $12,800 raise tomorrow!!! and 100's of Trump appointees (Original Post) underpants Jan 2019 OP
While other federal employees got a pay freeze and a government shut down. fleur-de-lisa Jan 2019 #1
Yes but look at all he does underpants Jan 2019 #3
What a work ethic! Kingofalldems Jan 2019 #5
Must be on the drumpf merit bonus loyalty plan. democratisphere Jan 2019 #2
For what? Blue Owl Jan 2019 #4
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