Trump labor adviser’s plan for cutting federal compensation, potentially even paid holidays

The following article by Joe David was posted on the Washington Post website December 17, 2017:

President Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House on Friday. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)

The Trump administration’s consideration of a wage freeze for federal employees is one piece of a renewed multifront Republican push to shrink those workers’ pay, benefits and workforce.

That effort has been around for years, but it now has an intellectual champion in the White House, and I don’t mean President Trump.

Confidential administration information released last week by Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), the leading Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, revealed an administration proposal to freeze federal salaries in fiscal 2019. That is the third piece in a pattern that includes Trump’s 2018 budget proposal to cut the employer contribution to retirement benefits and the House Republican plan to have retirees pay more out of pocket for their health insurance. Continue reading “Trump labor adviser’s plan for cutting federal compensation, potentially even paid holidays”