When Congress created the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, it spelled out a straightforward objective for lawmakers.
"The goal of the joint committee is to improve the solvency of multiemployer pension plans and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation," according to language in the Budget Act.
But solving the existential threat to as many as 200 collectively bargained multiemployer pensions and the PBGC—the government agency that insures private-sector pensions—will be anything but simple.
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