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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WB is mostly for providing infrastructure funding and could come on the chopping block. Have worked there before, I see a lot of bloat that US ended up covering. Extensive travel to African and other countries and very generous pay packages is an eye sore for the administration so consider it to receive some resistance. [/quote]y

And a lot of employees pay zero income tax [/quote]

Yes. My friends who worked there never paid US income tax while working and making $300-400k, they retired at age 60, and then filed for a green card. Their kids also got free tuition at private schools in DC. [/quote]

Stop spreading lies and misinformation. International staff get paid on the net.  US staff are paid on the gross and the latter pay taxes. International staff are not ever eligible for any US benefits such as social etc.  Vert few people at the Bank ever make $300k. The Green Card is now almost impossible to get following a State Department decision about 2 years ago. Finally, staff who started working after 2000 (25 years ago) do NOT qualify for the private school benefits at the Bank….[/quote]

I am not WB/IMF, but I live in Bethesda and so have a lot of friends over the years who work there.  (There is a house on my street that is a rental, and the owner always rents to a WB/IMF family who is in the U.S. temporarily.  Also, in general, it seems like a lot of WB/IMF staff choose to live in Bethesda.)

I understand that the benefits are not as good as they used to be, but it seemed like the WB/IMF people we have known over the years are (a) very well educated and pleasant; and (b) making good money (with at least partial private school benefits).  I figured that WB/IMF decision -- to offer generous pay packages -- was an attempt to attract the best and brightest.

I work in downtown DC near 18th and I (near the WB), and it seems like it took a particularly long time for those employees to return to the office.  (Forgive me if I'm wrong.)   As a taxpayer, that does not bother me at all because I know that a lot of WB employees do a lot of travel for their jobs, and so WFH seems like a nice balance for the days when they are in DC.  But the WFH, in combo with the perceived generous pay, may rub the Trump administration the right way.

If the WB/IMF employees are no longer in the US, that would be a huge hit to the real estate market in the DC area.  Also, I know that I have loved meeting so many over the years, from all around the world.
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