House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has released the Committee’s 2014 budget blueprint for the federal government. As in past House budget proposals, there are some proposed measures that would affect the federal workforce.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has introduced legislation that would require Americans making $250,000 per year or more to contribute the 6.2% payroll tax to Social Security.
The National Association of Government Employees (NAGE/SEIU) has called upon Congress to donate 20 percent of their net pay for the next 22 weeks to the federal government to help reduce the national deficit.
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a response to Senator Tom Coburn’s inquiry about excessive spending on conferences featuring wine tasting events.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has sent a second letter to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget saying that applying the cost of the average annual salary of a new federal position could potentially avoid furloughs for 52 current federal workers in essential positions.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would extend the pay freeze on the federal workforce through 2013.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) sent a letter this week to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to cancel two upcoming conferences that Coburn feels are an example of unnecessary spending when sequestration is threatening agency budgets.
With sequestration now in effect, the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund is bracing for an avalanche of requests about furlough assistance for federal families.
The White House issued a statement on the House GOP plan to temporarily fund the government and extend the pay freeze on the federal workforce that stopped short of threatening a veto should it pass both the House and Senate.
The outstanding inventory of retirement claims jumped 14% in February according to the latest monthly status report from OPM.
