Troops Get A 2.6% Raise, Trump Lies And Says More Than 10% To Our Troops

  Trump in Iraq - “[People said] we could make it (a military raise) 3 percent. We could make it 2 percent. We could make it 4 percent," he told the troops. “I said, ‘No, make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.’ Because it’s been a long time. It’s been more than 10 years. That’s a long time.”

Military.com: 2019 Military Pay Raise

Troops will get a 2.6 percent pay raise in 2019 thanks to a measure passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.