President pushes raise, drops pension payment increase in budget request

Federal Times: The administration proposed a 1 percent pay raise for federal employees and dropped a proposal to increase pension contributions in its fiscal 2015 budget request.

Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Burwell said in a press conference March 4 the administration recognizes how challenging recent years have been for federal employees, but that a 1 percent raise was the best they could do within such a tight cap on spending.

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