The U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have approved a two-year budget agreement, reached after negotiations with the Obama Administration, that not only is unprecedented, but also does not include unfair attacks on federal and postal employees.  Since 2010, such employees have been saddled with $159 billion in pay freezes and increased contributions to federal pension programs, with no additional benefits being enjoyed by the federal and postal civilian workforce.  “It is about time that Congress could reach a budget agreement that doesn’t try to stick it to our members and other postal and federal employees,” said President Hogrogian.

Included in this agreement are a suspension of the nation’s debt limit until March 2017, and increases to federal spending, both domestic and defense.  The agreement also means that the government will continuing operating, without disruption or threats of a shutdown, until the early part of the next President’s Administration.