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• Trump’s pay freeze plan expected by end of month - August 25, 2025

• The president must publish his alternative pay plan by Aug. 31 if he wishes to avert automatic large-scale increases to locality pay under the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  President Trump has just nine days to issue his likely plan to freeze federal employees’ salaries in 2026, before sizeable automatic and across-the-board increases take hold.

  Each August, the president must issue an alternative pay plan, declaring an economic emergency to avert the automatic implementation of sizeable increases to locality pay due to the 1990 Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act. Administrations of both parties have bemoaned the way that the law calculates those automatic adjustments, hence the annual sidestep of that provision.

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