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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump officials to get $10,000 Raise-As potus prepared to let shutdown go on "for months-even yrs."
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.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/4/1823559/-Federal-workers-go-without-pay-while-Trump-officials-set-to-get-10-000-raises-thanks-to-shutdown
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Trump officials to get $10,000 Raise-As potus prepared to let shutdown go on "for months-even yrs." (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2019
OP
Um, what about all the other federal employees subject to the 2019 pay freeze
fleur-de-lisa
Jan 2019
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)1. Um, what about all the other federal employees subject to the 2019 pay freeze
that Shitler announced three days ago, via executive order?
Shit out of luck, I guess.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)2. Link to The Guardian
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. Are they out of their minds?
Do they have any idea as to how wildly unpopular this would be at this time? How tone deaf can they possibly be?
Fine, go ahead. It will be the final nail in their coffin. Sickening.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,271 posts)4. bribery -- pie in the sky, by and by
Buying loyalty.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)5. "Ha ha." - KGOP republicans
llmart
(15,534 posts)6. Wish I could get $230,700 annually...
for sitting in the corner like a potted plant.