PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DECISION TO FREEZE GOVERNMENT WORKERS PAY FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS

President Obama's decision to freeze government workers pay for the next two years

President Obama's decision to freeze government workers pay for the next two years

Introduction

President Barack Obama suggested a two-year freeze of the wages of some 2 million government employees, seeking to grab the deficit-cutting start from Republicans with a rapid, spectacular stroke. Though indicating White House anxiety over record shortfalls, the freeze would make only a minute dent in yearly shortfalls or the nation's $14 trillion debt. (Koltun, 2010)

 

President Obama's decision to freeze government workers pay for the next two years

The leader Stated that "Small enterprises and families are squeezing their belts," Obama said in short comments at the White House. "The government should, too." The management said the design was conceived to save more than $5 billion over the first two years. The suggestion, which should be accepted by Congress, would not request to the infantry, but it would sway all other ones on the Executive Branch payroll. It would not sway constituents of Congress or their staffs, protecting against contractors, postal employees or government court referees and workers.

Obama's proceed was an try to get in front of Republican designs to slash government yield and the workforce next year, when they will flex more legislative sinew than now. It came a day before Obama's gathering at the White House with both Republicans and Democratic managers — his first with Republicans since the midterm elections — and two days before the deadline for recommendations by his deficit-reduction commission.

The leader said the finances and government expending were at the peak of the agenda for Tuesday's gathering, one he said he wanted "will assess a first step in the direction of a new and creative employed relationship" between the two parties. Because of GOP midterm profits, "we now have a distributed blame to consign for the American persons on the matters that characterise not only these times but our future," Obama said. (Koltun, 2010)

House Republican foremost John Boehner of Ohio, on pathway to become House speaker in January, said he was satisfied with the president's announcement. Republicans and Democrats don't have to delay until January to slash expending and halt all the levy hikes. We can — and should — start right now," Boehner said in a statement. He furthermore proposed that Obama was taking a sheet from the GOP playbook. (Lizza, 2007)

The freeze would take result on Jan. 1, presuming the lame-duck Congress accepts the proceed by the end of this year. The 2012 yield freeze will be encompassed by Obama as part of his fiscal 2012 allowance proposal to Congress, due early next year.

In the past, Congress has usually gone along with presidential recommendations on government employee yield levels.

Without congressional activity, government workers would mechanically get a 0.9 per hundred boost under the equation set by a 1990 law. They obtained a 1.9 per hundred yield boost this year. Rep. Darrell Issa, ...