So, does this help or hurt the bureaucrats from enacting burdensome regulations on Americans?
They’re being remote-ly professional.
A paltry 6% of the federal workforce “report in-person on a full-time basis” while almost one-third of federal workers are remote on a full-time basis, in a sharp turn-around from the pre-pandemic era in which only 3% teleworked daily, a report from Sen. Joni Ernst’s office found.
Ernst (R-Iowa), who has long crusaded against the rise in remote federal work, is planning to reveal the fruits of her office’s year and a half inquiry to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy during their visit to the Capitol Thursday.
“The nation’s capital is a ghost town, with government buildings averaging an occupancy rate of 12[%],” Ernst wrote in the blistering report. “If federal employees can’t be found at their desks, exactly where are they?”
How many can we promote to customer? If they do not want to do their jobs, well, it’s time to terminate. And this goes with supervisors all the way up the food chain who fail to make the employees come in. You can’t seriously hold them accountable if you rarely see the employees and cannot watch them work.
The Hawkeye State senator concluded that “taxpayers are getting ripped off” and claimed that her constituents were troubled by the lack of responsiveness from various government entities such as the Social Security Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and more
The report rattled through a handful of anecdotes to describe the lack of competence from the federal government.
She cited an example of a whistleblower report at the FDA that was unread for months warning about bacteria spreading in baby formula, which ultimately culminated in a national shortage back in 2022.
We’re forcibly having money taken from our paychecks to cover the operations of the federal government and the employees aren’t providing the service we’re forcibly paying for.
To further her point about taxpayers “getting ripped off,” Ernst cited findings that some federal workers are cashing in on higher pay rates from localities where they are not actually working.
“My audits are finding as many as 23[%] to 68[%] of teleworking employees for some agencies are boosting their salaries by receiving incorrect locality pay,” her report found. “Some employees live more than 2,000 miles away from their office and one ‘temporary’ teleworker collected higher locality pay for nearly a decade.”
That seems like a little charge called “defrauding the federal government.” Perhaps it’s time to start prosecuting. After terminating.
Read: Your Tax Dollars At Work: Only 6% Of Federal Workers Come In To Work »
Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was slammed on Wednesday after she compared a Tennessee law banning gender transitions for minors to past laws banning interracial marriage.
Walking away from treaties. Redrawing the boundaries of national monuments. Repealing pollution regulations.
A small North Carolina town has launched the nation’s first-ever climate accountability lawsuit against an electric utility.
Commit a crime, get deported before doing the time.
Rats! New York residents have long had a toxic neighborly relationship with the notorious rodents, and in the city of Ithaca the pest problems seem to be getting more noticeable.
