<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>President Trump’s decision Monday to revive plans to freeze federal employee pay in 2020 and to institute a series of cuts to federal employee retirement programs was met with great consternation from stakeholder groups, although the ideas stand little chance of<wm> coming to be carried out in current financial times.

The cuts to the federal retirement systems, and the idea to extend temporary hiring freezes, had not been widely discussed in current financial times.

“Congress to be sure does its job, and that Congress will try out these proposals in some detail. However,” one stakeholder said “the time is not in our favor, and Congress will likely need a lot of time before it can move ahead on any such proposal."

However a group called American Crossroads America</wm> had some concerns:

“The freeze, while short term for some of our constituents’ pay, had significant