{"id":1251,"date":"2025-05-19T15:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:05:52","slug":"the-budget-reconciliation-and-potential-cuts-to-federal-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/05\/19\/the-budget-reconciliation-and-potential-cuts-to-federal-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Budget Reconciliation and Potential Cuts to Federal Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Gerton from Federal New Network interviewed John Hatton, NARFE Vice President for Policy and Programs on May 16, 2025. \u201cAs Congress works to move their reconciliation bill forward, reductions to federal benefits may be inevitable.\u201d Check out the full article titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/pay-benefits\/2025\/05\/the-budget-math-for-federal-benefits-is-not-getting-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Budget math for federal benefits is not getting better.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article found on FedSmith.com by Ian Smith, May 15, 2025 titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedsmith.com\/2025\/05\/15\/additional-details-regarding-proposed-cuts-to-federal-employee-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Additional Details Regarding Proposed Cuts to Federal Employee Benefits<\/strong><\/a> provides more details that are emerging about proposed cuts to federal employees\u2019 retirement benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Potential changes and cuts to Federal Benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1250,"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-1251","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\/05\/2025-05-19-Federal-Benefits-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","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=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}