Not reduce per diem allowances for the Defense Department employees.

The department has proposed that beginning Nov. 1, employees on government travel to one location for more than 30 days receive a flat per diem rate. For each full day during long-term TDY of 31 to 180 days, the rate would be 75 percent of the locality rate (lodging plus meals and incidentals); for travel lasting more than 180 days, it would fall to 55 percent of the locality rate for each full day. Additionally incidental travel expenses have already been expanded further burdening the government worker.
This will inevitably lower morale and decrease voluntary travel to support the war fighter. Government workers have families and loved ones that they support and leave during the expected and necessary times of travel and should not be incurring additional expenditures for that support.