President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Dec. 28 to freeze the salaries of federal workers in 2019, an order he first announced in August, citing high government costs.
The order stops the automatic 2.1 percent pay increase all workers would have normally received in January 2019 and has no effect on military personnel who have been funded separately. The military will also continue with its 2.6 percent pay increase that came from the defense spending bill.
