Federal Employees
Our nation’s federal workforce is the best in the world, and Congressman Hoyer is proud to represent thousands of federal employees and retirees who live and work in the Fifth District. In Congress, he has led the fight for fair pay and benefits, with a strong focus on ensuring pay parity between military and civilian personnel - as well as quality health care coverage, a solid retirement system, and fair working conditions. He has defended our federal workers from the Trump Administration at every turn.
Congressman Hoyer is proud to represent more than 70,000 federal workers who live in Maryland's Fifth District – the most of any congressional district in the nation. He has consistently opposed politically motivated efforts to target federal workers’ wages, benefits, and hours. Every year, he fights to secure a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for our federal employees to ensure they can deal with rising costs. Additionally, he opposes the arbitrary and untargeted spending cuts known as sequestration, which resulted in furloughs for many federal employees in 2013. He has also called out Republicans' use of the Hollman Rule to cut salaries for individual federal worker
Crucially, Steny Hoyer has stood shoulder to shoulder with federal workers in the face of the Trump Administration's unprecedented effort to traumatize our federal workers and dismantle our merit-based civil service. Hoyer has worked closely with the Maryland Delegation, the Moore-Miller, Administration, and union partners to support federal workers who have been forced out of their jobs by Donald Trump and to counter these illegal actions from the Trump Administration.