With spiking prices on gas, groceries and other goods squeezing people across the country, lawmakers are debating whether to boost what would already be the biggest military pay raise in two decades.
A House subcommittee this week fired an opening salvo in the upcoming congressional debate over the pay raise, proposing troops get a 4.6% bump in pay next year in its draft portion of the annual defense policy bill.
That rate matches what the Biden administration proposed in its fiscal year 2023 budget request and would be the biggest raise since 2003.
But with inflation hovering as high as 8.3%, lawmakers are signaling they expect to wrangle over an even bigger raise when the full House Armed Services Committee meets to consider the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, later this month.
Why is it they never help people on Social Security??? It’s their own damn money pay them !
Better TRIPLE Social Security & Stop Govt from Stealing from it since LBJ in the 60’s !!!!!!!!
Military does need a raise.