Lawmakers to Start Putting Together Funding Bills Next Week
April 10, 2015
Members of Congress will return to Washington, D.C. next week to start working on various funding bills after a two-week recess.
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Defense Grocery Stores Fired an Expensive Bakery Contractor But Is Looking for a New Expensive Contractor
April 03, 2015
The Defense Department is looking for ways to cut cost, but it appears that the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is not.
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Frustrated Lawmakers Draw up Plan to Stop Their Colleagues from Robbing You
March 26, 2015
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen and his colleagues are fed up with Robin Hood in reverse.
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AFGE Denounces House, Senate Budget Proposals
March 25, 2015
Both the Senate and House budgets for fiscal 2016 would require federal employees to contribute substantially more of their wages toward their retirement without getting any additional benefits in return.
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How the Federal Government’s Burning Away Your Money in 1 Chart
March 20, 2015
Of all the three workforces that do work for the federal government – federal civilian employees, military personnel, and contractors – federal civilian employees are the cheapest, often by two to three times. But because of politics, agencies are forced to cut down on the use of civilian employees and give the work to contractors.
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12 Ways the New Congressional Budget Proposals Impact Your Wallet
March 20, 2015
Both Houses of Congress this week issued their budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Who are they going to help and who are they going to hurt? Find out below and click the pictures to share them on your Facebook profile
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House, Senate Leaders Propose Cutting Your Pay
March 18, 2015
Congressional leaders in the House and Senate don’t think you’ve sacrificed enough. In fact, they think you could do with a 5.5% pay cut.
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House Budget Plan Retreads Failed Proposals of the Past
March 17, 2015
Proposals to cut federal employee compensation, jobs hurts all Americans
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Obama to Meet with AFGE Local Leaders at Phoenix VA Hospital
March 11, 2015
President Barack Obama is visiting the Phoenix VA hospital this Friday, and he has asked to meet with AFGE Local 2382 President Louis Curry and staff when he’s there.
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Panel, Pentagon Come after Military Families, Employees
March 06, 2015
The exchanges and commissaries are an earned benefit treasured by military families and an important contributor to their quality of life. The modest cost of providing military families with inexpensive but essential goods and services is almost invisible in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) overall budget.
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DHS Remains on Brink of Shutdown
March 02, 2015
The agency that’s tasked with protecting the American homeland is still on the brink of a shutdown after the House of Representatives last Friday decided to fund the Department of Homeland Security for only one week instead of the entire fiscal year. The short-term funding measure runs out this Friday after midnight, sending Congress back to square one and crippling the important work of TSA, Border Patrol, ICE, FEMA, Coast Guard, FPS and other DHS agencies.
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Budget Proposal Agency Breakdown
February 06, 2015
See which agencies saw a budget increase, and those who budget decreased in the 2015 Budget Proposal.
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Lifting The Middle Class
February 06, 2015
The White House on Monday released a 2016 budget proposal that lays out the president’s strategy to lift up the middle class. It also spells out plans for agencies and the federal workforce. Here are 12 things you need to know about the budget:
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House, Senate Leadership Giving Non-partisan CBO Chief the Boot
January 30, 2015
Majority leaders in the House and Senate are reportedly replacing Douglas Elmendorf as director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO, which was created as a non-partisan agency under a 1974 law, provides budget and economic analyses to Congress to help them make decisions on government programs. The CBO, for example, weighs in on sequestration cuts and other congressional proposals.
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AFGE Supports Bill to Restore Pension Fairness for Feds
January 30, 2015
The American people subsidize corporations through corporate tax breaks every year. In 2013 alone, they shelled out $1,328 per household, or nearly $176 billion to companies, many of which make billions in profit a year.
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