{"id":1828139,"date":"2023-01-29T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828139"},"modified":"2023-01-29T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:38:17","slug":"democrats-push-to-give-federal-workers-massive-pay-raise-because-of-trump-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-to-give-federal-workers-massive-pay-raise-because-of-trump-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Push To Give Federal Workers Massive Pay Raise Because Of Trump: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-push-to-give-federal-workers-massive-pay-raise-because-of-trump-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Democrats want to give federal workers massive pay raises because of the claims that President Donald Trump was. \u201ccruel\u201d Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic was extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2 million federal employees would see an 8.7% increase next year, after President Joe Biden had already given them a 4.6% increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years now, federal employees have risked their health and safety working on the frontlines of this pandemic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/29\/democrats-offer-pay-hike-to-federal-workers-to-make-good-for-trump-covid\/\"><\/a> Rep. Gerry Connolly (D\u2013VA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were subjected to the Trump Administration\u2019s cruel personal attacks, unsafe work environments, pay freezes, government shutdowns, sequestration cuts, furloughs, and mindless across-the-board hiring freezes\u200b,\u201d Connolly claimed.\u00a0\u201c\u200bStill, our federal workforce serves with dedication and distinction every day. Federal employees are our government\u2019s single greatest asset, and they deserve better\u200b.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Connolly will attempt to get federal workers the big bump in pay by introducing the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates\u200b Act with Hawaiian Senator Brian Schatz (D).<\/p>\n<p>Schatz said, \u201c\u200bWhether inspecting our food, conducting medical research, or caring for our veterans, federal workers play an important role in our everyday lives and deserve pay which reflects that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randy Erwin, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dems-propose-8-7-pay-raise-for-federal-workers-to-make-up-for-covid-trump\">Claim<\/a> The raise was the minimum that could have been done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 8.7% increase listed in the FAIR Act is not a pay raise,\u201d Erwin stated. \u201cIt is the minimum increase needed to offset the dwindling checking accounts of public servants, and it is critical to recruiting and retaining the best possible workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are pushing a plan to give federal workers a massive pay raise because they claim that former President Donald Trump was \u201ccruel\u201d and because the coronavirus pandemic was hard. The proposed 8.7% raise for nearly 2 million federal workers would happen next year and would come after President Joe Biden already gave them a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1828142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3685,3974,5908,5280,3688,5283,4564,3634,5015],"class_list":["post-1828139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-democrats","tag-federal","tag-massive","tag-pay","tag-push","tag-raise","tag-reports","tag-trump","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}