President Donald Trump is signaling that he could go through with pay raises for federal workers after all following his decision this week to cancel them in order to save the government money.
One day after it was reported that Trump spiked a planned January pay raise for federal employees, he spoke at an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, and said he will reexamine the decision.
"I'm going to study that over the weekend," he said, according to NBC News. "I'm going to take a good, hard look over the weekend."
Trump wrote to leaders of the House and Senate on Thursday and said he was nixing a 2.1 percent across-the-board raise for most workers as well as separate locality pay increases averaging 25.7 percent.
"We must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases," Trump wrote.
The president last year signed a package of tax cuts that is forecast to add about $1.5 trillion to federal deficits over 10 years.
Content from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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