In December last year, Sen. Joni Ernst tweeted, “On its way out the door, the Biden admin is locking in telework for 42,000 @SocialSecurity bureaucrats until AFTER President Trump leaves office! Unacceptable!”
It wasn’t only Social Security bureaucrats; it’s across the board.
President Trump was vilified for ordering people back to work or be fired. The union fought the order. As it happens, under 50% have returned to the office. They had a month to return.
Small Business Administrator, Kelly Loeffler shows video of Federal Employees desks with nobody working and no work on the desk.
She says they will be required to come back into in-person work.
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) February 23, 2025
As leader of the DOGE, Elon Musk said any workers who have not returned to the office will be placed on leave.
Musk posted a message on X to exemplify the seriousness of the order.
“Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning,” Musk wrote.
“Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave.”
Musk was replying to a post from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who said no government agencies occupied half of their workspaces.
Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning.
Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave. https://t.co/7XRj6W21eX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 24, 2025
Last month, President Trump warned federal employees that they must return to prepandemic norms and return to their offices “or be terminated.”
Biden, or was it Obama, knew the employees weren’t doing their work, and Biden pushed for more of it to continue until after Trump left office. The administration did everything they could to sabotage the new administration.
The Administration Knew How Bad Telework Was in 2022
In June 2022, Patrick Hauf said that in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, a quarter of employees at the federal government’s top health agency failed to even check their emails as they worked remotely, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
About 25% of HHS employees didn’t even log in to get email, work files, video conference calls, and more.
Then-HHS chief of staff Brian Harrison commissioned the report. The documents were leaked by a whistleblower to the Functional Government Initiative and reviewed by the Free Beacon.
Biden was looking for ways to make telework permanent without checking to see if it was working. He was simply doing what his union donors wanted.
When they started to come back to work, only 10% showed up.
When Biden pushed for permanent telework policies, the Office of Management and Budget implemented new guidance: “Every effort will be made to maximize the use of remote work during widespread community transmission.”
There is more at Free Beacon.
Fake Republican Lisa Murkowski feels differently.
If Elon Musk truly wants to understand what federal workers accomplished over the past week, he should get to know each department and agency, and learn about the jobs he’s trying to cut.
Our public servants work hard to ensure that our national security is protected; that…
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) February 23, 2025
This is what the President has to say:
Great President @realDonaldTrump
pic.twitter.com/k0PMS8eoRC— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 24, 2025
Indicates to me that the’Federal government’ is OVERSTAFFED 50%….
Defund the freeloaders!!
They can’t show up. Many have another full time job they have to actually attend. Others have moved to locations with lower cost of living while collecting the pay based on living in DC. It’s also likely many of the workers don’t actually exist, no-show, no-work positions are common in union shops. The money goes to the union bosses. Another genius move by Trump to smoke all of them out.
Then why isn’t the federal work force 50% smaller? Talk is cheap. When is Trump/DOGE going to act? I’m starting to worry that they’re just drumming up anger so they can take over and redirect funds to Trump’s friends, family, and cronies in future spending bills. No indictments for the theft and fraud being revealed just means it’s a takeover of the Biden gang by the Trump gang.
The 50% who don’t show up should first be placed on unpaid leave. Give them 2 weeks of that, then fire them. Like the old joke goes (and it’s true for government workers),
“So, how many people work here in this facility?”
“Oh, on a good day, maybe about half”…
just process them “for cause”. Being in the office at your desk is a condition of work. Buh-bye!
I so hope trump can, indeed, fire them….and will.
Wouldn’t surprise me if half the people on payroll don’t even exist and their checks are going to some Swiss bank account…or to the Clinton Foundation.,
The unions and Dems are telling these people that Trump can’t fire them or make them return to work, thanks to Biden, so they have thrown down the gauntlet. When they actually get fired, they will be outraged and demand another chance for the 8-month salary offer. Trump..just say no. I think there will be no better poetic justice than to show these defiant grifters the door.
Remote work is NOT the problem. The problem is a lack of actual work being assigned, monitored, collected, and reassigned. Staffing load and productivity are management issues that will NOT be corrected by making the same deadbeat work in an office. Adding to the deadbeat’s salary the overhead cost of office space, furnishings, insurances, travel, maintenance, utilities, and janitorial services is more batschitt crazy than sending people to work with no oversight in the first place.
You have to get them back to the office before you can even pretend to manage them. Remote work is definitely the problem that has to be fixed before anything else can be. Wake TF up.
Because they’re not “workers’. They’re grifters.
Wait for the employees who scored second jobs while government paid them for first ‘job’.
Bye, bye Birdie!
I hope the hell it’s UN-paid leave. No one gets paid for not working!
Government “workers” do
Sad!!!
Your boss ordered you to report to work and you refused……
“YOU’RE FIRED!”
Easy peasy.
Okay, contender for the dumbest post of today. If you win, I will send you a cookie
They are just a bunch or grifting pigs at the trough.
“Administration Leaver” is NOT “punishment” for a bureaucrat’s TOTAL FAIL to do any work…it’s just letting them continue to get paid for doing NOTHING !!!!
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