Reuters: Politics: Defense Secretary Hagel to take voluntary sequester pay cut

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Defense Secretary Hagel to take voluntary sequester pay cut Apr 2nd 2013, 22:51 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News North Korea readies rockets after U.S. show of force Fri, Mar 29 2013 U.S. flies stealth bombers over South Korea in warning to North Thu, Mar 28 2013 Pentagon civilians face reduced unpaid leave due to funding bill, Hagel says Thu, Mar 28 2013 U.S., Afghanistan reach agreement on prison transfer: Pentagon Sat, Mar 23 2013 Pentagon delays furlough decision, analyzing funding bill Thu, Mar 21 2013 Analysis & Opinion Paul Ryan, Patty Murray and a budget walk into a bar The fiscal crisis nears – or not U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks at his news conference at the Pentagon in Washington March 15, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas WASHINGTON | Tue Apr 2, 2013 6:51pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will take a voluntary pay cut as a show of solidarity with Pentagon employees who will have to take unpaid time off over the coming months, a Defense Department spokesman said on Tuesday. Hagel will give back the equivalent of 14 days' pay to the government, Pentagon spokesman George Little said. That would come to about $10,750, based on Hagel's salary of $199,700. "My understanding is that there is a legal way to actually write a check, if you will, back to the U.S. Treasury," Little told reporters. Most of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian employees will have to take 14 days of unpaid leave as it implements more than $40 billion in spending cuts before the fiscal year ends on September 30 as part of a blunt budget-cutting effort known as "the sequester" that will affect a broad range of government operations. Republicans and Democrats set up the sequester in 2011 as a worst-case scenario that would force them to find other ways to narrow trillion-dollar budget deficits, but they have been unable to do so. (Reporting by Andy Sullivan and David Alexander; Editing by Eric Walsh) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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