The proposal still needs approval from both chambers of Congress and Trump\u2019s signature. Turner and U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, are pushing the measure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that we\u2019re this close,\u201d Turner told reporters after the rally.<\/p>\n
Turner said Husted secured pension restoration language in the Senate\u2019s version of the National Defense Authorization Act. He said he also has a commitment on the House side to accept the Senate provision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe job isn\u2019t done,\u201d Turner said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work yet to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the retirees and their families, Saturday\u2019s meeting brought a long-running fight directly to the president.<\/p>\n
Bruce Gump, chairman of the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association and a former senior engineer, said he is \u201cabsolutely hopeful\u201d that a resolution is approaching.<\/p>\n
But Gump said the effort extends beyond recovering lost retirement income. He wants changes to prevent other families from experiencing what Delphi retirees endured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fighting to get the government fixed so that this can\u2019t happen again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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U.S. Rep Mike Turner spoke during Saturday\u2019s Trump rally in Vandalia about the 17-year fight to restore Delphi retirees\u2019 pensions \u2014 an issue affecting more than 5,100 Ohioans.<\/p>\n
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Jacqueline Rose attended on behalf of her husband, Tom Rose, who spent 17 years working with the retirees\u2019 association before his death in August.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m hoping that this comes to fruition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Rose said her husband devoted many hours to the effort because restoring the pensions mattered deeply to him and the other people he wanted to help.<\/p>\n
The pension cuts continue to affect her finances. Following her husband\u2019s death, she began receiving a survivor pension that is smaller than the reduced benefit he had received.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s deeply impacted my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Turner said White House staff had been in contact with him before the rally and that Trump wanted to meet salaried retirees affected by the cuts before publicly committing his support.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president met with them. He heard their stories, and he was impacted by it,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n
Trump then recognized the retirees during his rally speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to take care of you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Trump said Husted and Turner are working to help the retirees and that his administration would be involved fixing the \u201cproblems caused by Barack Obama\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump, pictured with U.S. Sen. Jon Husted at Saturday\u2019s rally in Vandalia, said Husted and U.S. Rep. Mike Turner are working to restore Delphi retirees\u2019 pensions. Trump pledged his administration\u2019s involvement, blaming the pension cuts on \u201cproblems caused by Barack Obama\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Turner credited the retirees with sustaining the effort through years of setbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve not just done it for themselves, they\u2019ve done it for all of the retirees that were affected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Delphi, once a major Dayton-area manufacturer with more than 10,000 local employees, surrendered its pension plans to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. in 2009 during its bankruptcy proceedings.<\/p>\n
When the federal pension insurer took responsibility for the plans, salaried retirees received substantially less than they had expected.<\/p>\n
General Motors, which previously owned Delphi, paid the difference between the lower PBGC benefits and the pensions it had contractually promised to hourly retirees represented by the United Auto Workers. Salaried retirees did not receive the same protection.<\/p>\n
The salaried retirees challenged the handling of their pensions in federal court, but the lawsuit ultimately failed. In January 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up their case.<\/p>\n
Retirees also pursued a legislative remedy, although repeated efforts in Congress failed to produce a resolution.<\/p>\n
The White House\u2019s support for the $1 billion proposal was announced in June by Turner\u2019s office. At the time, Husted said the effort would affect more than 5,100 Ohioans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s past time to bring justice to these families, including more than 5,100 Ohioans, and deliver to them what they were promised,\u201d Husted said in that statement.<\/p>\n
Speaking Saturday, Turner said the proposal would be fully paid for through money in the PBGC and would not result in deficit spending.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s public pledge adds momentum, Turner said, but lawmakers still must complete the legislative work.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, with the president having made this statement, we just have to get the job done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tuner is running against Democratic candidate Kristina Knickerbocker for the Ohio\u2019s 10th Congressional District. She said Saturday that Turner was \u201cout-of-touch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a healthcare crisis and cost of living crisis in this country,\u201d said Knickerbocker. \u201cWe have to identify why that is and make it better, and that\u2019s going to start with undoing so many of the things Mike Turner and Jon Husted have voted for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump pledged his support Saturday for a $1 billion proposal to restore pensions for salaried Delphi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,367055,12,367057,6454,99282,367056,147,530,2404],"class_list":["post-870917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-delphi","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-turner","tag-ohio","tag-pension-benefit-guaranty-corp","tag-pension-restoration","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-retirees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}