Good point. They are, after all, just a bunch of corrupt leaches. $15/hr is too generous for their types. I mean, so what they risk their lives to protect us and our freedoms. MAGA!!!
Pay them? Pay them??? We should fire them. No job. No unemployment. Plenty of room on the street for them. As long as it’s your street. Keep those vermin off mine.
In real life, there’s a 1.9% pay raise for feds in the current Senate spending bill, but nothing in the corresponding House version. If the House goes along with the Senate version in conference, that would override Trump’s plan. That’s happened a number of times in the past with previous presidents.
And i think there’s some misunderstanding of locality pay. I believe what he’s referring to is adjustments to the current levels, not rolling locality pay back to 0. Typically, a (e.g.) 1.9% increase is divided between salary and locality pay adjustments.
When I talk to my cousin out in Arizona, a 42+ year member of the Senior Executive Service, originally on the General Schedule, he told me pretty much nobody in his department in the Indian Health Service voted for Trump. While most of the careerists in his department are Democrats, even Republicans, such as himself, despise Trump.
I pretty much expect the Civil Service to vote a straight Democratic ticket as long as Trump remains in office.
The ones I know here in NoVa tend to be in the IC (I live right near the CIA university) as well as civilians working for the Navy and many of them voted for trump because “if they did what Hillary did with classified information, I would have been fired”. I wonder how much of the crap that trump has now pulled would get them fired if they did it.