While many federal workers go without pay and the government is partially shut down, hundreds of senior Trump political appointees are poised to receive annual raises of about $10,000 a year. The pay freeze for top federal executives was enacted by Congress in 2013 and renewed each year since then. Republicans offered to scrap the executive pay raise in return for agreeing to a 1.9 percent raise for civil servants. Many others are working without pay, and just before the New Year, President Trump ordered a pay freeze for most federal workers, working or not. A senior administration official said the White House believes its likely Congress will act to reinstate the pay freeze when the federal government reopens.

Source: Washington Post January 04, 2019 16:36 UTC