Government Executive: The House voted 216-212 to approve the Senate version of the fiscal 2018 budget resolution Thursday, clearing the way for Republicans’ tax reform effort and ending, for the moment, one threat to federal employee and retiree benefits.
House lawmakers initially approved a budget on Oct. 5 that included a mandate that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee find $32 billion in savings over the next decade. Although the legislation did not specify how the committee should cut spending, the accompanying report suggested federal retirement benefits were an area to explore, and the Trump administration last spring proposed a series of changes to federal retirement.
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