Following the passage of concurrent budget resolution, H.Con.Res.14, which required at least $50 billion in cuts in mandatory spending under the jurisdiction of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to offset the costs of funding Republican tax and spending policy priorities, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform advanced legislation to meet its target.
In the “committee print” language, they cut earned federal retirement and health benefits and disincentivize the accrual and assertion of merit-based civil service protections, advancing the measure on a 22-21 vote, with all Republicans in favor except for Rep. Mike Turner, R-OH-10, who joined the committee’s Democrats in opposition. But there’s still time to tell your representatives and senators to oppose cuts to your earned federal retirement and health benefits!
