Biden approves Largest Federal pay raise in 40 years while GOP remains ineffective

Biden comes through for federal workers while the GOP House set a record level of government gridlock passing only 27 bills, a post depression record of incompetence, and none of them funded workers. There is only one party working in Washington.

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WASHINGTON (TND) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday finalizing a pay raise for federal employees in 2024.

The new order will give the more than 2 million federal employees an average 5.2% pay raise, which will take effect in the first full period of 2024.

This marks the largest increase since 9.1% in 1980 under President Carter. It is also 0.6% higher than last year’s increase, which was the highest one in two decades.

This means that more than 30,000 federal employees will see slightly larger raises than expected because of recent changes to the locality pay system.

Congress passed 27 bills that were signed into law this year

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress just wrapped up its least productive year since the Great Depression, passing just 27 bills that were signed into law. Of those 27, one law created a commemorative coin and two renamed medical centers.

 

Yea. Steadfast GOP session so expertly done they took dozens of votes to elect their leader only to replace him with plan F after the other 5 candidates ahead of him couldn’t get consensus then kicked the debt ceiling can multiple times to pass nearly zero legislation. You got me.

 

It’s clear the republicans can’t do anything. You’re right. That shouldn’t be news anymore.

Biden historic pay raise for federal workers

Biden’s executive order is the final step in the annual process of determining how much government workers will be paid the following year. That process has often featured a divisive debate in Congress over the value of federal workers and what they should earn compared to their private sector counterparts.

Congress has in some years adjusted the annual White House proposal on federal pay up or down. But this year, after Biden proposed the 5.2 percent raise in March in his budget for fiscal 2024, Republicans in Congress — engulfed for months in a partisan battle over raising the country’s debt limit and then in an internal struggle over the House speakership — have been silent on the raise this year. Absent any action by Congress, the recommended raise goes into effect by default. Most lawmakers have already left Washington for the holidays, signaling the end of the legislative year and allowing Biden to finalize the pay hike with Thursday’s executive order.

 

You could argue any legislation does that.