While hundreds of thousands of workers go without pay because of the Trump Shutdown, and after Trump cancelled a scheduled pay raise for career civil servants, Trump’s senior administration officials, including Mike Pence, are set to receive $10,000 pay raises. This is outrageous, and makes it abundantly clear that Trump does not care about American workers.
Washington Post: While federal workers go without pay, senior Trump administration officials are poised to get $10,000 raises.
By Peter Whoriskey and Lisa Rein
While many federal workers go without pay and the government is partially shut down, hundreds of senior Trump political appointees are poised to receive annual raises of about $10,000 a year.
The pay raises for cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators and even Vice President Mike Pence are scheduled to go into effect beginning Jan. 5 without legislation to stop them, according to documents issued by the Office of Personnel Management and experts in federal pay. Continue reading “Washington Post: While federal workers go without pay, senior Trump administration officials are poised to get $10,000 raises.”