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Eugene

(61,819 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 06:54 PM Jan 2019

The Latest: Trump administration looks to prevent pay freeze

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Trump administration looks to prevent pay freeze

58 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

The Trump administration says it’s exploring ways to prevent a scheduled federal workers’ pay freeze from taking effect while government workers are furloughed by the partial shutdown.

Democrats say it “adds insult to injury” for public servants.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that the pay freeze is an “unnecessary byproduct of the shutdown.”

She says Congress could take care of the problem by funding the government and giving President Donald Trump the money he wants to secure the southern border.

Trump announced the pay freeze in his 2019 budget proposal in February and later in letters to Congress.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/ac3ca51e26bf4d1bbbbeaa6379147c07

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Does it need to be pointed out that Sarah Sanders is lying?

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The pay freeze is not an unnecessary product of the shutdown. Igel Jan 2019 #2

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Igel

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2. The pay freeze is not an unnecessary product of the shutdown.

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Fri Jan 4, 2019, 07:49 PM

Jan 2019

That's a strange thing to say.

But the pay freeze was proposed a long time ago. And is less of a freeze than has been said.

Best thing I've read so far is https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/freeze-is-on-salary-rates-not-salaries/ .

In other words, for most employees it sounds like a limitation. No ATB increase. (Sorry, "ATB" means "across-the-board", it's a linguistics thing ... http://www.let.rug.nl/dvries/pdf/2015-ATB-companion.pdf .) It makes life hard when there are various kinds of pay increases that get all merged into one number, and a lot of employees don't know how that particular sausage is made before it's shoved in their face: scale, step, merit increase, extra whatever.

I like the tidbit at the end that says that the high-level executive pay increases happen not because of an affirmative act but because a law expires. If law, then Congress is involved.

So where's the House?

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