On Jan. 5, President Biden signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act, which will provide new or additional Social Security benefits for about 3 million individuals who receive government pensions from jobs not covered by Social Security. Though criticized by liberal, centrist and conservative Social Security policy experts, the legislation was popular among elected officials and cleared the House and Senate with large bipartisan majorities.

President-elect Trump also supported the legislation, and it will fall to his administration to actually make the new benefit structure a reality. This will be a challenge, partly because of the chaotic legislative process that brought the law into effect.

The legislation was introduced two years ago by Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) but received limited attention until last fall. Circumventing the committee structure and regular process, Graves filed a successful discharge petition in........

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