President Trump's announcement that he wants to cancel the 2.1% pay raise for federal workers is just the latest assault on the middle class. President Trump championed a tax cut that spends $1.5 trillion on the forgotten corporate class. The American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents 700,000 of the 2 million federal workers, is vowing to fight. Worse still, President Trump wants to end what's known as the "locality pay increase" -- an annual adjustment to assist federal workers in parts of the country where the cost of living is high -- like, say, the neighborhood Trump Tower is in. Federal workers are patriotic; nearly one-third of them are veterans.

Source: CNN August 30, 2018 23:03 UTC