The following article by Joe Davidson was posted on the Washington Post website December 14, 2017:
Federal employees dodged a bullet this year, with the flop of proposed cuts to their retirement and health benefits, but they shouldn’t put away the flak jackets yet.
After proposing a 1.9 percent federal pay raise for next year, President Trump will urge a pay freeze for federal employees and call for cuts to domestic security programs in fiscal 2019, according to reports released by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Democrats.
Ironically, this comes as Congress nears passage of tax legislation that Trump claims will significantly stimulate the economy. If that’s the case, then why is a freeze necessary? Continue reading “Democrats say Trump to seek federal pay freeze and cuts to domestic security”