Government Executive: The White House’s top budget official argued in favor of a 2020 pay freeze for federal employees, telling lawmakers on Tuesday the plan would free up agency heads to deliver merit-based pay.
Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, told a panel of the House Appropriations Committee that the usual across-the-board pay bump each year does not provide incentives for good performance. He said OMB would work with agency heads to design new plans that would allocate funding based on merit and agency needs.
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