President Trump revealed “an alternative plan for pay adjustments for civilian Federal employees”, lowering an anticipated pay raise of 2.5% to 1%. “Under current law,… a 2.5 percent across-the-board increase” “would go into effect in January 2021”. Instead, the President has “determined that for 2021 the across-the-board base pay increase will be…
Trump Administration Releases 2021 Budget Proposal
February 10, 2020
President Trump today, through the Office of Management and Budget, released his administration’s 2021 budget proposal. President Trump’s 2021 budget proposes the following: NASA “The Budget provides $25.2 billion for NASA, a 12-percent increase from the 2020 enacted level.” Agriculture “The 2021 Budget requests $21.8 billion in discretionary resources for…
Chinese Military Personnel Charged for Hacking in 2017 Equifax Breach
February 10, 2020
A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with “hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets.” The charged “allegedly conspired with each other…
Chinese Deaths from Wuhan Coronavirus up to 811
February 9, 2020
Today, the Chinese Government reported on the latest developments surrounding the Wuhan coronavirus: “The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland had reached 37,198 by the end of Feb 8 and 811 people had died of the disease.” “The mortality rate of the virus in… the city of Tianmen and…