President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers’ pay for 2019,following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year. The scramble, which nixes a 2.1% across-the-board pay raise that was set to take effect in January, and comes as hundreds of thousands of federal employees are expecting to start the unique year furloughed or working without pay because of a partial government shutdown. Trump told lawmakers he planned to scrap the 2019 pay bump for federal workers in August,[…]
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