Top Trump officials will receive $10,000 amid partial shutdown

Published January 4, 2019 8:01pm ET



Senior Trump administration officials will receive raises of about $10,000 this year, even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are still going without pay because of the partial government shutdown.

The pay raises for Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators, and Vice President Mike Pence will go into effect Saturday since there is no legislation to stop it, the Washington Post reported.

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