Guys, guys, guys… you’re not looking at the big picture.
Corporations got a permanent ~15% tax cut. The money needed for that had to come out of somewhere? Why not have it come out of the pleb government worker’s pockets?
The GS 12s and 13s make way above market, in my opinion, whereas the 15s and the SESs are generally paid below market. 13s in DC make 100k plus great benefits with great security.
Interestingly, pay and benefits is comparatively super high for people with bachelors or less and low for people with professional degrees or higher.
Trump’s still an ■■■■■■■ and I’m confident that he doesn’t know any of the above.
in his words
“We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases.” Trump says he’s determined that for 2019 "both across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zer
this is after he blew up the deficit with his huge tax giveaway to the rich