Republicans already giving Trump’s budget a cold shoulder

President Donald Trump's budget hasn't been released yet, but that's not stopping some of Capitol Hill's most important Republicans from giving it a cold shoulder. Trump's blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday, and it's certain to include a wave of cuts to benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, federal employee pensions and farm subsidies.

6-figure salary, no severance: What an FBI director has to lose

James Comey's ouster from the top of the FBI sent shock waves through Washington, and left many wondering what happens next for him. The FBI director job was a step down in pay from his previous roles as general counsel for an aerospace giant and a hedge fund, even though the role is a level III position in the executive schedule.

Sean Brune: No estimates on how bad Social Security fraud is

Social Security can't even give a ballpark estimate for how much fraud there is in the program, a top official admitted to Congress on Wednesday - though he insisted they care about the matter and are working to weed out bogus payments, particularly in disability payments. Sean Brune, assistant deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration's budget office, said they're trying to become more aware of the problems and looking for new tools to fight back, but said he couldn't guess at how bad the problem is.

GOP crafting new health care plan for retired unionized miners

Coal companies say a new Republican plan to extend retiree health benefits is fair, but unionized miners worry it will siphon federal resources they believe should be used for their pensions . The measure, which hasn't yet been introduced, shifts the cost of retiree health insurance from coal companies to the federal government.

Why a few sentences of legalese make all the difference in curbing California’s public pension costs

Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising and other costs of an initiative campaign. Some of the most promising efforts, however, ran into a different kind of obstacle: an official summary, written by the state attorney general, that described the initiative in terms likely to alienate voters.

Teamsters face 31 percent pension cut

Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. less Ed Oleski, president of the Teamsters Local 294 retirees, rolls up a Teamsters banner following a meeting about a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan on Monday, March, 6, 2017, at the Labor Temple in Albany, ... more A trailer carries the logo for Teamsters Local 294 on Monday, March, 6, 2017, outside the Labor Temple in Albany, N.Y. They are facing a proposed 31% cut to their pension plan.

Retirement Anxiety Is Gripping America

A few weeks after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives moved to kill rules allowing states to create portable retirement savings accounts, a new survey found that 75 percent of Americans support just such an option. The response was a common refrain in a report that echoed the growing dread of living out one's golden years in poverty.

Ap Fact Check: No federal pension for Obama’s mother-in-law

A story widely shared online that claims President Barack Obama's mother-in-law will receive a lifetime government pension is false. The post published by The Boston Tribune , a satire website that mimics an actual news publication, is headlined " First Grandma Marian Robinson to Receive Lifetime $160K Government Pension."

Teeming local ballots in 2017

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Capito calls on Trump to join fight for miners’ benefits

Senator Shelley Moore Capito is calling on President-Elect Donald Trump to make the Miners Protection Act a priority in his first days in office. Capito voted in the majority in favor of the continuing resolution on Friday night to fund the government.

Paul Ryan isn’t ruling out Medicare privatization, and it isn’t just Democrats who are wary

Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan speaks during a weekly news briefing December 1, 2016 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. During the briefing, Ryan repeated comments indicating that changes to Medicare would have to accompany any effort to repeal and replace President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Supreme Court takes up hospital pension dispute

The Supreme Court will decide whether some of the nation's largest health providers can rely on their church affiliations to avoid complying with federal laws covering pension benefits for workers. The justices agreed Friday to take up cases involving three nonprofit hospital systems being sued for underfunding their employee pension plans.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump's campaign pledge to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act might have struck a chord among voters, but the politics of repealing or replacing it won't be simple. The stakes are high as the CalPERS board debates whether to significantly decrease the nation's largest public pension fund's assumed rate of return, a move that could hamstring the budgets of contributing municipalities as well as prompt other public funds across the country to follow suit.