Bipartisan legislation would establish a special pay rate for employees at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons until the agency ...

Federal correctional officers’ pay will increase by 35%, under a bipartisan bill introduced this month. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and David McCormick, R-Pa., introduced the Federal Correctional ...

Republican appropriators say reduced spending reflects a shrinking federal workforce. Democrats say the deal staves off deep cuts for several agencies.

​Most civilian federal workers will receive a pay raise this month. The amount, however, will be the lowest annual bump they’ve received in years. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in ...

New legislation to give BOP correctional officers a 35% federal pay raise attempts to address longstanding staffing shortages across the agency.

October 7, 2025 (Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district with one of the largest concentrations of federal employees and contractors in the U.S.

The Military and Federal Employee Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), would allow all military service members, federal employees and contractors to receive the pay that they have ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in December directed department components to designate awards of up to $25,000 in an effort ...

The federal government shutdown has now reached its 24th day, making it the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history. Surpassing the three-week mark means that federal employees will miss their first ...

It’s a question several viewers have emailed to KHOU Verify. Sharon writes, “Last week House GOP voted on a measure that would pay federal employees their paycheck despite shutdown. Only 6 Dems voted ...

Some federal workers who are not being paid during the government shutdown have a nagging fear: They might not receive retroactive pay once the impasse is resolved. Roughly 1.4 million federal ...