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Trump isn’t the only one targeting federal
employees. House Republicans are pushing
cuts to pension benefits
May 10, 2025
After months of contending with the
Trump administration’s multi-pronged
effort to downsize the federal
workforce, government employees are
now facing the possibility of another
major change that could push even
more of them out the door.
House Republicans are looking to make
several big adjustments to federal
workers’ retirement benefits to help
pay for the party’s sweeping tax and
spending cuts package. The House
Oversight Committee last week approved
a plan that would squeeze $50 billion
in savings out of the retirement system
over the next decade.
“They’re going to charge people more
for the benefit, and then they’re going
to reduce the benefit by changing the
formula for how the benefit is
calculated,” Jacqueline Simon, policy
director of the American Federation of
Government Employees, the largest
federal workers union, told reporters
on Monday.
Rep. James Comer, the committee’s chair,
described the effort as a way to save
Americans money.
“The simple truth is that a significant
amount of the costs associated with all
of these benefits are funded by
hardworking taxpayers in the private
sector and increasingly now federal
government borrowing,” Comer said in
his opening remarks when the committee
examined the plan. >https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/politics/federal-employee-pension-benefits- >republicans
Meanwhile, the untouched
pensions enjoyed by members
of Congress can be read at:
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/congress-pay-perks
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