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Senate strips most retirement cuts from reconciliation, but anti-civil service provisions remain
Gone from the bill are House-passed provisions that would require all federal workers to contribute 4.4% of their basic pay toward the ...
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Paul Releases Proposed Postal Employee Cuts
On Thursday night, June 12, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released the text of his ...
House Democrats question Trump’s use of Postal Service inspectors
House Democrats are seeking more information and a face-to-face briefing from the U.S. Postal Service about the Trump administration’s use of ...
Subcommittee Ranking Member Mfume Calls on GAO to Investigate the Progress Made on USPS-USPIS Joint Project Safe Delivery Initiative
Today, Rep. Kweisi Mfume led Subcommittee Democrats in sending a letter to Comptroller General of the United States Gene L. Dodaro requesting an ...
Fed Benefit Changes Made as Updated Reconciliation Bill Clears House, Trump Calls on Quick Senate Action
Changes are made to federal benefit cuts as the House last week narrowly passed, on a vote of 215-214-1, the ...
Postal unions react to passing of bill that cuts federal retirement benefits
Early this morning, the reconciliation bill passed the House by a vote of 215-214, after the Rules Committee spent over ...
House passes reconciliation bill that cuts federal employee retirement benefits
Though Democrats were able to excise a plan to base federal retirees’ annuity payments on their highest five years of ...
House Drops Plan to Increase Required Retirement Contributions, Pushes Back Provisions to Devalue Benefits
House Republican leaders have dropped a plan to require about half of federal employees to begin paying more toward their ...
House Vote Planned on Budget Bill with Federal Benefit Cuts
The House Rules Committee is set to advance to the House floor a budget reconciliation bill in the early morning ...
Postal union updates on House Reconciliation bill that cuts federal retirement benefits
On Sunday night, May 18, the House Budget Committee passed a revised version of the budget reconciliation bill out of ...
Retirement cuts tweaked in House reconciliation package
House Republicans on Monday unveiled a series of changes to a bevy of proposed cuts to federal workers' retirement benefits ...
Keep Calling Congress to Oppose Cuts to Postal and Federal Pensions
In the late night hours of Sunday, May 18, 2025, the House Budget Committee voted by a margin of 17-16 ...
House Republicans’ pension changes will save nearly $51B, CBO says
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s proposal to overhaul the federal government’s pension benefit system would save nearly $51 ...
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch and Ranking Member Steny Hoyer Mobilize to Combat Attacks on Federal Workers Included in Republicans’ Extreme Budget Bill
The roundtable follows a full Committee markup of the Reconciliation bill in which Oversight Committee Democrats offered twenty-five amendments that would add ...
