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deminks

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Fri Jan 4, 2019, 01:31 PM Jan 2019

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/04/while-federal-workers-go-without-pay-senior-trump-administration-officials-are-poised-get-raises/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f0e27755207d

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 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 that will be issued next week.

Cabinet secretaries, for example, would be entitled to a jump in annual salary from $199,700 to $210,700. Deputy secretaries would be entitled to a raise from $179,700 to $189,600. Others affected are under secretaries, deputy directors and other top administrators.

The pay of Pence is scheduled to rise from $230,700 to $243,500.

There was no immediate comment Friday by the White House. A spokesperson for Pence also did not immediately provide comment.

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While federal workers go without pay, sr Trump administration officials are poised to get $10,000 (Original Post) deminks Jan 2019 OP
Let them eat a beautiful chocolate cake says Donny Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 #1
Don't forget about the 2 scoops of ice cream meow2u3 Jan 2019 #3
This should be a major headline on every news outlet dalton99a Jan 2019 #2
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