IFPTE Joins Representatives Walkinshaw and Hoyer, Senator Van Hollen on Capitol Hill Calling on Congress to Approve a Federal Employee Pay Raise

President Biggs

President Matt Biggs, along with AFGE President Everett Kelley, NTEU President Doreen Greenwald, and NFFE President Randy Erwin participated in a Capitol Hill press conference this week urging Congress to reject President Trump’s federal worker pay freeze proposal for 2027 by passing a 4.1% civilian pay increase as a part of the appropriations process. 

The press conference was organized by the Federal Workforce Caucus and attended by caucus leaders Representatives James Walkinshaw and Steny Hoyer, and Senator Chris Van Hollen. The caucus led a bipartisan letter signed by 110 congressional lawmakers last week urging congressional leadership to pass the 2027 pay increase before Congress adjourns later this year. 

Biggs remarked that the Trump pay freeze effort is “a disgrace and something our national lawmakers of all political stripes should be lining up to get corrected,” while reinforcing IFPTE’s request that Congress “approve a 4.1% pay raise.” Watch President Biggs’ remarks here.