If you needed any proof that Donald Trump truly doesn’t care about Americans, you should see what he’s doing to this country’s federal workers – EVEN after he screwed many of them over when he made them work for free during his pathetic government shutdown.
In February, after Congress ended Trump’s shutdown, provisions to give federal workers a 1.9 percent pay raise were added. But unfortunately, this pay raise can’t even go into effect until Trump provides an executive order for the pay raise and his Office of Personnel Management publishes new pay scales. And the crazy thing is that Trump, a president who has issued tons of executive orders during his presidency, isn’t doing a damn thing about it.
It’s been over three weeks since the government has been reopened, and Trump has yet to put the pay raises into effect. In response to the sluggish pace Trump is performing at, a group of House members have sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russel Vought and OPM Director Margaret Weichert to address the “unacceptable” delay.
In the letter, House members urged Trump officials to be sensitive to the fact that federal workers had already endured a month without pay due to Trump’s shutdown, causing may of them to have financial issues. The letter also orders Trump officials to give federal workers a timeframe for when they can expect their raises.
There is really no reason the Trump administration should be dragging their feet on this, other than the fact that Trump really doesn’t give a sh*t about working Americans. This, like many other facts about the President of the United States, is going to come down hard on Trump supporters who elected him because they bought his lies about being their champion.
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