The following article by Joe Davidson was posted on the Washington Post website April 20, 2018:
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney testified Feb. 13 before the Senate Budget Committee on the President’s Fiscal Year 2019 Budget. (Senate Budget Committee)
Just two days after the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog documented raises as high as 72 percent for handpicked aides, President Trump’s budget boss defended a general pay freeze for federal employees, even those he knows are underpaid.
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney told a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday that an “analysis of the way that we paid federal workers seemed to indicate that we overpay at the lower levels and underpay at the upper levels.” Continue reading “Mulvaney defends pay freeze even for feds he knows are underpaid”
