President Donald Trump, citing “our nation’s fiscal situation,” announced that a pay boost for civilian federal employees that was to begin in January won’t go into effect.
Under the current law, federal employees would have gotten an across-the-board increase of 2.1 percent starting in January 2019. Employees who also get an adjustment based on their location won’t see an average 26 percent increase to their locality pay in the new year, which would have cost the federal government an estimated $25 billion.
