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July 2025 NEWSLETTER
Updates on Budget Reconciliation Bills, Provisions Affecting Feds Pay, Pensions, Benefits, Rights
During an intense two months, Feds and future public servants successfully stared down and ultimately defeated a litany of proposals included in the House and Senate budget reconciliation bills that would have targeted the pay, pensions, benefits, and employment rights of career federal employees.
That effort, which PMA contributed to alongside our partners in the federal and good government communities, was ultimately successful in keeping all cuts to federal employee pay, pensions, and benefits out of the bill.
Congress has been using the fast-track budget mechanism called reconciliation to advance the president’s signature tax and policy package through Congress under a process requiring only a simple majority, enabling a bypass of the Senate filibuster rules.
OPM Seeks to End Performance Rating "Inflation" with New Government Wide Rules
The Office of Personnel Management issued on June 17 new guidance on Performance Management for Federal Employees.
The guidance rolls out OPM’s new governmentwide standards for performance management, awards programs, and resolving poor performance. The new rules will apply to most PMA members - employees in the competitive service and excepted service who are in positions covered under subchapter I of chapter 43 of title 5 that were not changed earlier in the year in updates that applied to Senior Executives and Senior Professionals.
OPM tells agencies that more must be done to reflect clear distinctions in employee performance and end rating “inflation,” and to more specifically clarify requirements ...
The Gov Navigators Show Talks to Danny Werfel.
🎙️ This week on the GovNavigators Show: Former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel takes us behind the scenes of the Trump administration’s whirlwind effort to overhaul the IRS. With decades of federal experience at OMB and DOJ, Werfel unpacks what happens when urgency trumps strategy and reflects on his own methodical transformation blueprint. From cybersecurity risks and staffing shake-ups to financial reporting under M-25-30, this episode asks: What reforms matter most—and why are we overlooking civics literacy as a key to lasting change?
Tuning in? Expect sharp insights, deep policy dives, and a candid look at the future of government accountability.
Listen to podcast here: From OMB to IRS: Danny Werfel on making reform stick - Federal News Network
