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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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Trump Cuts Worker Wages: When Paychecks Become Political

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President Trump eliminated the $17.75 minimum wage for federal contract workers, potentially cutting pay for hundreds of thousands of private sector employees. By tearing up a Biden-era executive order that set a minimum wage for workers on federal contracts, the Trump administration has made some private sector workers vulnerable to pay cuts of up to 25 percent.

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