The Treasury Department has published copies of checks written by President Barack Obama that show he did in fact take the $20,000 sequester pay cut as promised.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
When President Barack Obama says he "donated at work," he now has the U.S. Treasury Department documentation to back it up.
The president and first lady made the last of seven donations of nearly $3,000 each to complete a pledge made during last year’s budget battle with Congress, Treasury confirmed Friday in a little-publicized post to the "Treasury Notes Blog".
The checks, totaling $20,000, were cut between April and September of last year.
Anthony Reyes, the Treasury Department’s new media specialist, posted the update. In the post Reyes said images of some of the checks were posted to the Treasury General Fund last June. The remaining were published to the blog on Friday.
In May, the White House refused to comment on whether or not President Obama has followed through on his promise to take the 5 percent pay cut in "solidarity" with government workers who were furloughed during the sequester.
Following the Washington Free Beacon’s report, then-Press Secretary Jay Carney said he "believed" that Obama took the pay cut, though the confirmation would not come for more than a month later.