Coda to the Weekend Update

Govexec.com reports tonight that the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government released the fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that will be marked up tomorrow evening.  In pertinent part --

• the bill includes a provision to increase Federal civilian pay by 3.1 percent in 2020, and
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM) –The bill includes $339 million, an increase of $43.4 million, for OPM. The bill rejects the Administration’s proposed merger of OPM with GSA.