Congressional Republicans are crafting budget reconciliation legislation on defense, energy, and the border, in addition to lifting the debt limit and renewing the 2017 tax cuts that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. In order to pay for these priorities, Congress...

President Trump signed an executive order titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative.” The purpose of this EO is “To restore accountability to the American public, this order commences a critical transformation...

In October 2020, the administration created a new category of positions in the federal workforce, called “Schedule F,” that covered certain policy roles. These positions would have been exempt from competitive hiring rules, and employees in those roles would not have had...

Federal pay has not kept pace with inflation, and retention of feds is at a severe risk. The Federal Salary Council recently reported that federal workers earned nearly 25 percent less than private sector counterparts, a growing disparity that will only force more of the...

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) reintroduced the Federal Retirement Fairness Act (H.R. 1522), with Reps. David Valadao (R-CA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), and Don Bacon (R-NE). This FMA-endorsed, bipartisan bill would allow FERS...

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) reintroduced the Telework Reform Act (S. 82) early in the 119th Congress. This legislation, endorsed by FMA, is identical to the bipartisan bill that passed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the 118th Congress...

FERS COLAs are artificially reduced any time the CSRS COLA is above 1 percent. When the CPI-W increase is 3 percent or greater, the FERS COLA is reduced by 1 percent. If the CPI-W is between 2 and 3 percent, like the 2.5 percent for 2025, FERS retirees see a 2 percent COLA,...