Trump says he'll 'study' his decision to cancel federal pay raises

[left-of-center2012]

Source: NBC News

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would spend part of his Labor Day weekend taking a “good hard look” at his controversial decision earlier this week to cancel scheduled pay raises for most federal employees due to government budget concerns.

“I'm going to study that over the weekend,” Trump said at an event in Charlotte, N.C., Friday afternoon about the pay freeze. “I’m going to take a good, hard look over the weekend.”

The comments come after his Thursday pay freeze announcement was met with heavy criticism from several lawmakers, including some Republicans with districts in northern VirTrump, in a Thursday letter to House and Senate leaders, wrote that he’d decided “across-the-board” pay raises as well as locality pay raises for civilian federal workers scheduled to go into effect in January 2019 would be frozen.

Trump, in a Thursday letter to House and Senate leaders, wrote that he’d decided “across-the-board” pay raises as well as locality pay raises for civilian federal workers scheduled to go into effect in January 2019 would be frozen.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-ll-study-his-decision-cancel-federal-pay-n905526

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[MontanaMama]

1. tRump study anything?

That ain't happening.

[thegoose]

6. You beat me!

Asshole's about as introspective as a can opener.

[sheshe2]

30. Lol

My thoughts exactly.

[MontanaMama]

42. Dayum she...

50,000 posts?!

[Flaleftist]

43. Actually, yes,

but nothing Hitler didn't write.

[louis-t]

2. He'll do no such thing.

He'll check back on Tuesday to see if it has blown over. If not, then he will put them back in. The most cowardly, self-centered piece of shit ever.

[nature-lover]

33. Yes, so he can be the hero and give them a raise that he can take credit for.

[C_U_L8R]

3. What an idiot

useless pos

[iluvtennis]

4. Liar, he won't be "studying" sh*t, except how to cheat at golf.

[sandensea]

9. And Russian etiquette.

No that he probably has the least idea there either.

[Bengus81]

5. What give the raise em..."back" and be a big hero in those workers eyes??

Same old bag of BS tricks before an election.

[bearsfootball516]

7. Exactly.

He'll "reverse" the decision, declare that because of his decision, all federal employees will get raises, and they'll all cheer!

Completely omitting the fact that he created the problem in the first place...

[nature-lover]

35. It's how he rolls.

[bluestarone]

40. EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are people REALLY THAT FUCKING DUMB????

[politicaljunkie41910]

63. Federal workers aren't stupid. They know who got the bulk of the tax cuts, and they also know how

many of Trumps White House staff got the maximum salaries; people like Omarossa, Sarah Huchabee Sanders and Hope Hicks and plenty others with no experience received starting salaries of $180,000 while the workhorse of the federal government gets jerked around waiting anxiously to see if they get a 2% pay raise which may never materialize.

[unblock]

8. Yet another example, why do republicans put up with his incompetence?

If I were a rwnj I'd not like Donnie, because he's the most inept politician even by republican standards.

I get why they prefer Donnie over a Democrat, that's just their hyper partisanship at work, but why do they prefer Donnie over any other republican??

[John Fante]

29. Bigotry.

[unblock]

48. But republican alternatives are bigots too!

[John Fante]

50. But they were far more subtle for the most part.

They blew dog whistles; Trump uses a PA system.

As far as the deplorables go, Trump had them at "Mexicans are rapists".

[meadowlander]

57. Yes. Actual politicians study policies before they enact them.

Trump does whatever Fox and Friends says is a good idea, then is surprised by the backlash, then "studies" the problem once its pointed out to him that he's shot himself in the foot, then backpedals and pretends it never happens.

Rinse and repeat.

[beachbum bob]

10. 1.8 million workers plus another 2 million or more with spouses and voting

age kids....all looking at voting democratic now, no matter what trump does as he clearly can't be trusted nor the GOP who been silent.

[Mad-in-Mo]

11. Then he'll decide to reinstate them

and consider himself a hero --- another "positive" thing done. UGH.

[yellowcanine]

12. Too late. Damage is done. No one would believe him anyway and it would make him look weak.

If he does reverse himself he will of course find someone to blame for the fiasco.

[ancianita]

13. That was scripted PR -- the word isn't in his vocabulary.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. He pulls some cockeyed idea out of his ass and takes no advice from anybody

before he announces it - and then has to backtrack when it doesn't play as well as he expected.

[PearliePoo2]

15. He just pissed off over a million people.

It’s blowing up in his face. GOOD!

[DonViejo]

16. Idiot. You're suppose to study the situation BEFORE you make and announce ...

what you're going to do. I know, I know, "thinking" is something new to you and the rest of your moron brigade. You're spending way too much time in the shallow end of the gene pool.

[dsc]

17. If he studies anything it will be Barbara Comstock's poll numbers

she is the only GOP rep who this decision hurts badly. She has a boatload of federal workers in her district. It might also hurt one of WV reps but I don't know how vulnerable the one it would hurt is.

[Control-Z]

18. Study?

What? Trump study?.........

[lagomorph777]

19. CNN pointed out this morning that he's handed a huge gift to Dems running in VA and MD.

He's probably just flipped my district (VA-10) to blue. Go for it, Jennifer Wexton, and bye-bye Barbara Comstock!

[Shaddox]

20. "northern VirTrump" Haha! Every once in a while, a moment of truth (H.L. Hannigan).

[0rganism]

21. this is just set-up for the eventual walk-back

CincyDem nailed it yesterday: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11074713

he's putting up something revolting that congressional Republicans can use to run against and pretend they're independent of him if it looks necessary in their districts
there may even be some congressional action taken to guarantee pay increases
regardless, Agent Orange will end up discarding this idea and then shit all over the news media for reporting on it, even though it was his idea in the first place

i hope Democrats see the bait-and-switch coming and prepare appropriately.

[diva77]

28. +1,000,000 Yup, just another rethug tactic since they can never accomplish anything the

honest way.

[babylonsister]

22. Otherwise known as backtracking. Such a fool. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

23. He must have gotten a lotta shit

You don't get up there and brag about a "booming economy" and "4% growth" and then whine about things being so "bad" that you can't give a paltry COLA increase to feds after happily signing one for the military. And then ignore the fact that civilian feds also work in DOD too (i.e., DOD is not all uniformed military personnel, where the military were granted a 2.6% raise yet the civilians would get nothing).

[bucolic_frolic]

24. So much power, so little mind .... Trump must find this a very conflicting issue

Do what he wants, do what's popular, reverse his own perfect judgment, do what Congressional Republicans say to do ...

[Snellius]

25. These "Trump says" stories always end badly.

I never read past "Trump says" any more, unless I'm in the mood to listen to the ravings of a seriously disturbed maniac suffering the final breakdown of a total mental collapse. Every day. Insistently. Is insanity contagious?

[underpants]

26. He apparently got fact slapped

You moron. The employees of both State and Fed jobs are aging and retiring like crazy. Yes the benefits are great but the pay isn't. Moron.

[StepnKretchit]

27. OMG!

He's just trying to get attention. With more important events going on today, he just had to do or say something to make the news. UGH!

[pazzyanne]

31. I am so sick of tRump practicing his "art of the deal" with America's future.

I am equally sick of the people who voted him in or helped in "rigging" the system so that he won the electoral college. Whenever tRump says things that are creepy, I immediately start looking at what he is/ has been doing himself.

[Cousin Dupree]

32. Why didn't he "study" before he made the decision the first time? Why doesn't he study before he

makes any decisions? Does he not get it that knee jerk decisions don’t work for the position he’s in?

[Danmel]

62. He relied on his "genius" instincts.

He's a stable genius, you know.🙄

[GusBob]

34. Screw someone else Dicktard.

Find another porn star to

[truthisfreedom]

36. Another day, same old game. Create crisis, reverse decision, pretend to be hero.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

37. He'll study it if its written upside down on the back of hope hicks head.

Or the inside of a cheeseburger box.

[George II]

38. Should he not have "studied" it before he did it?

[kacekwl]

39. He will blame the problem on the "deep state" then

proclaim he will solve it. His base of fools will rejoice.

[sinkingfeeling]

41. Flip flop. How many times has he reversed himself so far?

[Corgigal]

44. Don't adults decide before they take action?

Never mind, answered my own question.

[StatGirl]

45. Translation: He had no idea this was happening until he saw it on the TV.

This has Mulvaney written all over it. Fortunately for federal workers, it's not likely to stand.

[struggle4progress]

46. "Did I cancel some pay raises? Nobody told me! Why am I always the last to hear about this stuff?"

[murielm99]

47. This was his attempt to draw attention away

from Aretha and McCain. It didn't quite work out the way he wanted.

Poor baby.

[wishstar]

49. Gotta love the Scroogian hubris of announcing no pay raise right before Labor Day weekend

right when everyone has been noticing the uptick in inflation and of course, Feds health insurance premiums will be going up so without a cost of living raise, they will actually get a pay decrease if no COLA next year.

Guess some Repubs running for reelection let Trump's WH know there are lots of Repubs, not just Deep State Dems in federal work force and most federal employees do not make huge salaries.

[liberal N proud]

51. Creating yet another crisis so he can be the one who fixes it

IF nothing else he does this shit to feed his ego.

[randr]

52. Wanna bet if he takes credit for it when he reverses himself?

[Freethinker65]

53. The Mulligan Man will check his poll numbers and reverse his decision

The press will give him another "do over" and Trump will claim himself the savior of Federal Employees.

[joet67]

54. What he means is

he will listen to the fake news, and when it appears to be unpopular, he will rescind it while claiming he stopped the Democrats plans to not give raises. As if.

[Doitnow]

55. Stupid people don't know they're stupid.

[Kablooie]

56. Maybe he will consult his scholars to find an answer.

[DeminPennswoods]

58. Translation: Mulvaney's in trouble

Since Trump has no idea about anything, I'm sure Mulvaney is behind the decision to cancel not only the pay raise, but also locality pay increases. The locality pay is what gives it away as something only an insider like Mulvaney would know about.

Now that the blowback is strong, expect Trump to change course and then scapegoat Mulvaney.

[raccoon]

59. Any federal employee still loyal to him after this is beyond hope nt

[Mc Mike]

60. Make the controversial decision, codify it. Act first,

then study it later. Shitler.

[jcgoldie]

61. Uhm studying requires thought .. I think he means...

Tune in to Fox News to see what he should do...