Feds’ pay increase doesn’t make House-passed funding

Federal Times:  The House passed fiscal year 2021 appropriations legislation Friday that did not include provisions for a federal pay raise next year, a House Democrat’s aide confirmed to Federal Times.

The bill, passed on exclusively Democrat votes, combines six of the traditional appropriations bills into one minibus, and does include a 3 percent increase for members of the military. If Congress fails to specify a pay raise for federal employees, that authority falls to the president, who determines how much to increase federal pay, if at all.

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