Obama seeks 1 percent base pay raise for federal workers

Published August 31, 2016 8:01pm ET



President Obama informed House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday that he is proposing a 1 percent increase in the base pay for federal workers in 2017.

“I have determined that for 2017, across-the-board pay increases will be 1.0 percent,” Obama wrote.

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