President Trump Curtails Federal Pay Raises

the Whitehouse Briefing Room ^ | 31 August 2017 | President Trump

[CodeToad]

President Trump just saved the taxpayers from giving ridiculous local pay raises amounting to $26 billion to federal employees.

[gaijin]

Lessay you said to Thomas Jefferson:

“In over 200 years from now, the richest four zip-codes in the country will all surround Washington D.C.”

What type of face would he have made..?

[EarlyBird]

See my tagline.

[Kickass Conservative]

I’m going to use my “BOOM” allotment for August. I was planning on rolling it over to September, but this is as good a time as any to play that card.

If you think the flood in Texas is something, just wait for the flood of tears coming from those poor underpaid Federal Employees and their Union Bosses currently serving in the U.S. Congress.

[taterjay]

MAGA!!!

[gubamyster]

I’m going to use my “BOOM” allotment for August.

I was just gong to say I hat the BOOM, but this one deserves it.

[bigbob]

Hubby: “Sorry dear, but without my raise, we’ll only be able to spend two weeks at Puerto Vallarta instead of three”.

Wifey: “That Trump is such a racist!”.

[vette6387]

“What type of face would he have made..?”

He would have also said: “What’s a Zip Code?”

[ConservativeMind]

Next year, he can cut everyone’s pay in half.

[House Atreides]

“Locality pay” should be phased out. It just results in federal employees in “blue” areas & states getting higher pay than those in the rest of the country. And don’t feed me the “cost of living is higher” rationale; I’m not buying.

[Paladin2]

Cut PRyno-Hitler’s pay to a buck/year until he passes a real budget.

[Paladin2]

As the Cost of Living increases, taxes should be reduced to make up for the effect on the taxpayers.

[roadcat]

Under current law, in addition to a 1.9 percent across-the-board increase for the base General Schedule, locality pay increases averaging 26.16 percent and costing $26 billion would go into effect in January 2018.

Not any more! 26 percent average locality pay increase, means some were going to get a lot more; not any more thanks to President Trump doing his job of fiscal responsibility. The nation's credit card is overused and abused, and President Trump is trying to rein in costs (unlike Congress).

[PAR35]

I’m more sympathetic to the federal workers.

You can get the same result by moving the federal jobs from the high cost areas to lower cost areas. Say, for example Federal jobs were moved from California to Mississippi and from Chicago to western Oklahoma. Tell the folks in Boston they have 30 days to relocate to Montana and the taxpayers will reimburse the cost of a U-Haul truck.

[dragnet2]

Go Trump!

[dragnet2]

Jefferson? 200 years ago? What are you talking about?

Ya think we should put Hillary or Boosh back in charge? What’s your point?

[familyop]

"Lessay you said to Thomas Jefferson:

“In over 200 years from now, the richest four zip-codes in the country will all surround Washington D.C.”

What type of face would he have made..?"

A facial expression conveying curiosity and confusion. Then he would have said, "I don't understand what you said. Would you restate the question in English? And what is a zip code?"

[mrsmith]

Beautiful!

The Democrats will be on the media saying the government needs to spend more money because we have “serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,”... and in the courts saying he can’t do this because we don’t have “serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,”

Which Democrat lies will the media cover?

[grcuster]

This increase can be offset with the reduction of pay with every federally elected official and their staffs.

[familyop]

I was being facetious but do understand the point you were making. Mr. Jefferson would have been disappointed in us for turning this country into such an authoritarian, cleptocratic plutocracy.