{"id":34528,"date":"2018-12-30T03:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34528"},"modified":"2018-12-30T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:58:37","slug":"nice-timing-on-pay-freeze-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34528","title":{"rendered":"Nice timing on pay freeze, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald John Trump isn&#8217;t exactly the master of impeccable timing.<\/p>\n<p>He helps shut down part of the federal government, forcing the furloughing of thousands of federal employees; thus, they are not getting paid while their agency is shut down because the White House and Congress are arguing over money to build The Wall along our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>What does Trump then decide to do? He signs an executive order freezing wages for federal employees! They were slated to get a 2.1 percent pay increase. No longer will they get it. Trump said the budget cannot support it. Imagine that, will ya?<\/p>\n<p>The budget deficit has exploded since the president and congressional Republicans enacted that tax cut, depriving the government of revenue that might have helped minimize deficit growth.<\/p>\n<p>At least, though, the pay freeze doesn&#8217;t have an effect on the 2.6-percent pay increase granted to our men and women in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as the saying goes: Timing is everything.<\/p>\n<p>Nice timing, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John Trump isn&#8217;t exactly the master of impeccable timing. He helps shut down part of the federal government, forcing the furloughing of thousands of federal employees; thus, they are not getting paid while their agency is shut down because the White House and Congress are arguing over money to build The Wall along our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice timing on pay freeze, Mr. POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,13],"tags":[775,1112,1424,1978,8257,4784,5246],"class_list":["post-34528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-national-news","tag-budget-deficit","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-shutdown","tag-pay-increase","tag-the-wall","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34529,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34528\/revisions\/34529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}