Trump must veto this bill. What they did is exchange his demand for 5.7B for a wall for a puny amount for a wall plus a raise for the dem workers. BTW, they ALL got a COLA raise at the end of the year, so, this is nothing more than more payments to an over paid bunch to begin with.
That is incorrect. There are no automatic COLAs for federal salaries.
They didn’t get COLA in January. That was taken out during the big budget last year.
I work for the VA, there was no COLA raise at the end of 2018.