At the start of the Labor Day weekend, President Trump endorsed an across-the-board 2.6-percent pay increase for the two-million-member Federal workforce, but without a locality differential.
Previously he had been demanding a wage freeze. The President announced his shift in an Aug. 30 letter to Congress, with the Washington Post reporting that he did so “to prevent a much larger increase from taking effect automatically.”
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