{"id":1216,"date":"2025-04-23T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:42:39","slug":"federal-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/04\/23\/federal-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Employees Facing 2025 Federal Budget Cuts.\u00a0 Ralph R. Smith on FedSmith.com article addresses the upcoming 2025 Federal Budget Cuts such as the following.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Increased Contributions for Retirement Benefits<\/strong><br>\nOne of the most important items for the federal workforce would be a proposed increase in contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).<br>\n<strong>Changes to Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)<\/strong><br>\nThe Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program is also a target for reform. The Republican plan proposes shifting from the current model\u2014where the government covers approximately 72% of premiums\u2014to a voucher system.<br>\n<strong>Elimination of Automatic Pay Raises<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Reduced Retirement Benefits and Pension Reforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This article focuses only on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedsmith.com\/2025\/04\/21\/possible-changes-for-federal-employees-in-2025-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>budget proposal<\/strong><\/a> for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible Federal Employees Facing 2025 Federal Budget Cuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/04\/Budget-Cuts-Red-2025-04-23.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}