Trump Cuts Pay Raise For Feds, Cites Bad Economy

Slate reports:



In public, President Donald Trump likes to boast about—and usually inflate—the performance of the American economy on his watch.

If you lived in a bubble where Twitter Trump was your sole news source, you’d be pretty fired up, which makes it odd that on Monday the very same Trump White House said it intends to slash a scheduled pay raise for civilian federal employees.

Trump is justifying ordering the cut on the grounds that the country is in the midst of a “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,” which the White House says authorizes the president to “implement alternative plans for pay adjustments.”