Trump’s Budget Will Push Performance-Based Pay for Feds

Making good on last year’s promise to remake government “starting from scratch,” the Office of Management and Budget signaled that Monday’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal will include a shift from “tenure-based” civil service system pay to performance-based bonuses. The Associated Press reported that senior administration officials on Thursday said Trump will recommend restricting the pay system encompassing 1.5 million federal employees to cut as much as $10 billion in traditional tenure-based pay bumps over 10 years and redistributing the money as performance-based bonuses.