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On Second Thought, 1% Raise for Feds Too Rich for Trump

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/10/20

President Trump, perhaps operating from the premise that he's not the only U.S. employee who should be in a sour mood during the holidays, has changed his mind about a pay raise for civilian Federal workers, even as their military counterparts are set to get a 3-percent increase in the coming year.

Two large Federal-employee unions found little consolation in the fact that the canceled wage hike was only going to be 1 percent, with the leader of one calling the broken pledge "demeaning, dishonest and cruel."

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