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Posted on 05/23/2017 2:00:58 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s budget funds huge tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest Americans by slashing take-home pay, benefits, and jobs for the civil servants who care for our veterans, guard our borders, support our military, and ensure our health, the head of the largest federal employee union said today.
Federal workers would be forced to pay more toward their retirement – amounting to a six-percent pay cut – and would see those retirement benefits shrink through a change in how benefits are calculated and the elimination of annual cost-of-living adjustments.
“Thanks to years of pay freezes, meager wage hikes, and mandatory increases in retirement, federal employees earn 6.5 percent less today than they did at the start of the decade when adjusted for inflation,” American Federation of Government Employees J. David Cox Sr. said. “President Trump’s budget continues this race to the bottom by penalizing the working-class people who serve and protect their fellow Americans.”
Specifically, the budget would:
“This budget rips away any sense of financial security that federal workers currently have and shows how little regard this administration has for the everyday Americans who keep our government running,” Cox said.
The retirement cuts total about $117 billion over a decade, which would be on top of $182 billion in cuts to federal employee pay and benefits since 2010. Federal employees also are at risk by budget proposals that would eliminate subsidized student loans and end student debt forgiveness for those who enter public service.
The budget also proposes eliminating thousands of current jobs, with significant cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture, Interior, and Treasury departments.
“The federal government has roughly the same number of workers today as it did when Dwight Eisenhower was president, serving a population that has doubled in size,” Cox said. “Federal employees do a tremendous job serving the public with limited resources and little appreciation. Unfortunately, this budget stacks the deck against them by cutting their jobs, wages, and benefits – all to benefit Wall Street executives and the wealthy elite.”
As one of their bosses,I like it!
Here's an old song I like.
The pigs are squealing.
One of the world’s richest retirement plans where workers get BOTH defined benefit and defined contribution. It’s about damned time.
MAGA!
It Figures, that the AFGE would try to feed these lies.
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Apparently these clowns whose spokesmen are making high six figures think that people will forget that the last decade was mainly Hussein. Bitch to him AH.
Reducing government jobs, wages, and benefits is simply part of fiscal responsibility.
It has nothing to do with Wall Street executives and the wealthy elite. It has everything to do with proper management of our tax dollars and other government revenue.
AFGE is a conflict of interest
“Trump budget cuts civil service pay, jobs, and benefits to line CEO pockets, union says”
Or maybe it’s just to restore a little fiscal sense to the DC swamp people?
Union scum alert
And they watch on line porn all day!
As others say the AFGE. I say no federal worker should be a union member. When will we tell ever elected Rep and Sen NO DAMN AFGE INS FOR YOU.
Get rid of pension,join 401k.
Do your wages and benefits get cut as well?
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