{"id":137519,"date":"2018-12-29T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/because-of-course-donald-trump-hates-federal-workers.html"},"modified":"2019-01-01T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:55:14","slug":"because-of-course-donald-trump-hates-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/because-of-course-donald-trump-hates-federal-workers.html","title":{"rendered":"Because, of course, Donald Trump hates federal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who&#39;s blowing out the Secret Service budget with his incessant personal travel, the man who&#39;s ballooning the Defense budget, the man who&#39;s pushing through tax cuts for the rich, the man who&#39;s making money hand over fist through profiting from his own presidency &#8230; is of course the man who&#39;s freezing federal worker pay. Because giving federal workers a raise would be &quot;inappropriate, and &quot;we must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There are times when Donald is a mean-spirited jerk by happenstance. And other times where it&#39;s clearly deliberate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/29\/politics\/trump-executive-order-federal-workers-pay-freeze\/index.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/U-lJZnZE5wODBuA48zgRhJq717T6h2cm6SRprozjgB7oPSv4SF8yng0dpEEvr1aKc3j83YnPQA-2jQiEhiXvjB40tw7dB-U5iHesT1EfkDZktGpBbbi0CsIOvcyhoNa90WX5N04dEQwQo5Xh=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/29\/politics\/trump-executive-order-federal-workers-pay-freeze\/index.html'>Trump issues executive order freezing federal workers&#8217; pay in 2019 &#8211; CNNPolitics<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPresident Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers&#8217; pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/VhynGG8gsZV'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who&#39;s blowing out the Secret Service budget with his incessant personal travel, the man who&#39;s ballooning the Defense budget, the man who&#39;s pushing through tax cuts for the rich, the man who&#39;s making money hand over fist through profiting from his own presidency &#8230; is of course the man who&#39;s freezing federal worker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/29\/because-of-course-donald-trump-hates-federal-workers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because, of course, Donald Trump hates federal workers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135399,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/trump-administration-2020-census-go-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":137519,"position":0},"title":"The Trump Administration and the 2020 Census: What Could Go Wrong?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Nov-17 7:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because why worry because Donald Trump has named a Republican activist around gerrymandering, who's written a book about how \"Competitive Elections Are Bad for the United States,\" who has no federal statistical background, to be Deputy Director of the Census Bureau? 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Unfortunately for him, it may not apply contractually.Donald Trump's business is leasing the Post Office Pavilion in Washington as the Trump International Hotel\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26012,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/on-the-higher-pay-of-all-those-federal-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":137519,"position":3},"title":"On the higher pay of all those federal workers","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 7:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Part of what's amusing\/maddening about the debate is that it's couched (by government critics) as being \"unfair\" -- it's \"unfair\" that federal workers earn more, or get better benefits, or whatever.Of course, I strongly suspect most of those same people would vilify any attempt to discuss \"fairness\" in private industry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137722,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/the-trump-administration-will-protect-religious-discrimination-by-health-care-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":137519,"position":4},"title":"The Trump administration will protect religious discrimination by health care workers","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Jan-19 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Think those lesbians are nasty sinners who are going to fry in hell so why should you have to provide nursing services to them? Convinced that a woman who gets an abortion is an unclean baby-killer and your checking her blood pressure will make you complicit? Think that transgenderism is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/misleading-the-court-about-the-facts-and-record.html","url_meta":{"origin":137519,"position":5},"title":"&quot;Misleading the Court about the facts and record&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 1:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's federal judge-speak for \"lying\" and \"deceit\".The target is the guy who's leading Trump's voter suppression \"election integrity\" commission, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The topic is about a fine he was ordered to pay over a suit in Kansas regarding ... voter suppression \"election integrity.\"Nicely picked, Donald. 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