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The Facts
Note that although the GOP presidential aspirant starts out by talking about
the "never-seen-before levels" of spending under Obama and then mentions
"the trillion-dollar stimulus," the example she cites - the number of
Transportation Department employees making more than $170,000 - uses the
metric of "the beginning of the recession." There's a reason for that
phrase: The recession started in December 2007, 13 months before Obama
became president.

In other words, Bachmann gives the impression that she is talking about
something that Obama did, but in fact, the big increase in government pay
that she denounces started under Obama's Republican predecessor, George W.
Bush.

In fact, the apparent source of Bachmann's claim, a 2009 article in USA
Today, made it clear that Bush recommended across-the-board raises that,
after they got through Congress, resulted in boosts of 3 percent in January
2008 and 3.9 percent in January 2009. By contrast, Obama in 2010 recommended
the smallest federal pay raise since 1975 - 2 percent - and then froze
salaries in 2011."