{"id":15940,"date":"2022-12-20T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=15940"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:15:34","slug":"sen-ossoff-push-to-boost-servicemember-pay-passes-congress-with-bipartisan-support","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-push-to-boost-servicemember-pay-passes-congress-with-bipartisan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Sen. Ossoff Push to Boost Servicemember Pay Passes Congress with Bipartisan Support<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff has secured a historic pay raise for Georgia\u2019s servicemembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s push, this year\u2019s national defense bill includes a 4.6% pay increase across the military, the highest in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2022\/03\/28\/troops-slated-largest-pay-raise-20-years-under-pentagon-budget-inflation-looms.html\">almost 20 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Military families are struggling with high costs, and our servicemembers and their families already make tremendous sacrifices,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThis&nbsp;<a>pay<\/a>&nbsp;raise will help ensure that they have what they need to make ends meet take care of their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The provision passed as part of this year\u2019s&nbsp;<em>National Defense Authorization Act<\/em><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>which is expected to be signed into law later this week.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff has secured a historic pay raise for Georgia\u2019s servicemembers. Following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s push, this year\u2019s national defense bill includes a 4.6% pay increase across the military, the highest in&nbsp;almost 20 years. \u2018Military families are struggling with high costs, and our servicemembers and their families already make tremendous sacrifices,\u201d&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15940","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15942,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/15940\/revisions\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}