President Trump wants to cancel an automatic pay raise set to take effect next year for federal civilian workers.
Federal workers were to get a 2.1 percent across-the-board raise in January, with more for those who live in high-cost areas. But in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday, Trump wrote, “We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases.”
Trump put the cost of the raises associated with high-cost areas at $25 billion.
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