[PhiKapMom]

The AP story is hard to figure out and if I hadn't had experience with civil service would not have picked up on it! IMO it was written to make the President look bad when he is just doing what other President's have done since 1990. Locality pay for GS employees who are fairly high paid is not necessary IMO!

[mystery-ak]

How does this affect Wage Grade Federal Employees?
Are all Federal Employees getting the 3.1%?

And I'll take the 4.1% military pay raise!

[clamboat]

Written to make the president look bad?!? Well, duh! It does look bad. You act as if this is something be proud of. If so, the administration would have released this news on a Monday morning so it could be chewed up in the news cycle all week. Instead they sneak it out in the middle of a long-holiday weekend when fewer people are paying attention to the news. They wanted to bury this story.