How many overtime hours have members worked each year for the past three years?

Name: The Fraternal Order of Police Endorses the One, Big, Beautiful Bill
Uploaded: 2025-06-07T01:46:22+00:00
Duration: 7 s
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Description: Short excerpt of a video where multiple speakers—identified as Speaker A, B, and C—advocate for a bill that would exempt law enforcement overtime pay…

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The Fraternal Order of Police Endorses the One, Big, Beautiful Bill

7 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt of a video where multiple speakers—identified as Speaker A, B, and C—advocate for a bill that would exempt law enforcement overtime pay from federal (or general) income tax. Speakers emphasize that officers work long hours (citing over 2 million overtime hours per year across members for the past three years), that overtime is necessary not a luxury, and that a tax exemption would ease financial burdens and support families and community safety.

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Over 2 million hours per year.

Every year for the past three years, our members have worked over 2 million hours of overtime just to keep the nation's capital safe.
We work so hard to protect our communities. Long hours away from our families, away from our loved ones, making sure that we protect our city. And we should be able to not have to pay tax on that overtime dollars so that we can better support our families. To compensate us for the time that we're missing for the soccer games, the swim practices, everything that goes on in our lives, we're missing out to protect our fellow community members.
Overtime is not a luxury for us, it's a necessity. And if there's no tax on overtime, it will reinforce this country's belief in law enforcement and make the officers feel more supported and help ease the financial burden of their everyday life.
This big, beautiful bill that includes no tax on overtime is critically important for not just our officers, not just our retirees, but those family members that are critically dependent upon that income as well. The quality of life that we have in every community in this country is directly related to the services that we provide in law enforcement. Law enforcement officers suit up and show up every day and make a difference in the communities. And it's time for people to rally behind law enforcement and recognize this impact that it's going to have on public safety.