President Obama was first out of the gate with the plainly symbolic move of giving five percent of his salary back to the Treasury, and now he has been joined by four other members of his cabinet, the Associated Press reports:

The announcements that Secretary of State John Kerry, the richest Cabinet member, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will voluntarily reduce their pay came a day after President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said they’d return 5 percent of their paychecks to the Treasury.

The gesture is a means to express solidarity with federal agencies that are being forced to cut spending as part of sequestration, a process that also includes furloughs of federal government workers. (Kerry said his five percent will go to a charity for State Department employees.)

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced legislation that would extend spending cuts to congressional salaries; she is also giving back a portion of her own pay for each day that government workers are furloughed.