We'll find out in January won't we.
In the meantime all you people clamoring for cutting federal employee pay were sounding very disingenuous when you kept exempting the military. Those Democrats don't see the difference; don't want to imagine there's a difference; and to be "fair" they'd like to emasculate the military and reduce the soldiery to penury ~ to be poetic about it.
That's like it used to be and they want to return to that.
You helped them get to that point!
Did you notice it’s for THREE years, not the two the civilians (NON UNION) would be seeing?