House of Representatives passes measure to reverse federal employee salary freeze

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday giving federal workers a 2.6 percent pay increase, nullifying President Donald Trump’s administration’s December 2018 decision to freeze federal employee salary rates.

This pay increase will put executive branch employees at an equal level with military members in terms of pay raises.

The measure reverses President Trump’s executive order signed during the government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history that froze approximately 800,000 government workers from receiving pay checks for 35 days.

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