The top Senate DOGE Republican plans to send 24 letters – one to the heads of each major federal agency – demanding a halt to last-minute work-from-home negotiations before President Biden returns to Delaware.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, authored a 2025 bill that would “decentralize” and relocate one-third of the federal workforce outside of Washington, D.C. Made the request a day later.
The bill’s long acronym spells out “DRAIN THE SWAMP Act.”
Ernst said that more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, no government agency’s office space is half full, and has previously called on the Biden administration to cut back on taxpayer benefits. requested that unused real estate be sold.
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Ernst said in the letter that 90% of federal employees eligible to work from home still do so, and only 6% report working “full-time.” said.
Additionally, she said public sector unions are said to be “setting personnel policies” in defiance of federal directives from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and that those directives earn them vast sums of money. This led to a waste of time, space, and money.
“Union leaders are rushing to strike a luxurious, long-term deal with the lame-duck Biden administration that will ensure bureaucrats can work from home for at least four more years, beyond President Trump’s next term.”Ernst he said. This is what he wrote in a prepared letter to Robert Shriver III, Director of Human Resources Management.
“Apparently protecting work-from-home benefits for public employees is a higher priority than serving American taxpayers,” she wrote, adding that Biden’s compliance with union demands was “shocking.” That’s unacceptable,” he said.
He similarly voiced his opposition to unionization of civil servants in the first place, when Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt wrote a letter to union managers declining an invitation to the 1937 National Federal Employees Union Convention. He pointed out that he was a liberal president.
President Roosevelt said, “All government employees should recognize that the process of collective bargaining, as it is commonly understood, cannot be transplanted to the public service.”
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“There are clearly insurmountable limitations when applied to personnel management in the civil service.The very nature and purpose of government precludes civil servants from fully representing or binding employers in mutual consultation with civil service organizations. It’s impossible.”
“The employer is the people at large, and the people have a say in the laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.”
Ernst cited President-elect Donald Trump’s last-minute push to ratify collective bargaining agreements and telework privilege agreements before launching surveillance efforts through DOGE, and federal employees and their union representatives are calling on President Roosevelt to suggested that he had forgotten the warning.
Ernst said the situation showed that union leaders and employment agency management were “being manipulated by the government.”
Embedded in the letter is a photo of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who served as the head of the Social Security Administration in the Biden administration, wearing a Captain America T-shirt alongside an alleged union official at the party. was wearing
Mr. Ernst cited reports that Mr. O’Malley had gone to Florida to party with union members before endorsing a deal that would prevent easy reductions in work-from-home capacity.
She said O’Malley spent the trip drinking and “singing” Irish ballads on his guitar.
“What was supposed to be a negotiated friendship between the Social Security Commissioner and the union boss representing his workers resulted in an incredibly pro-union contract, with taxpayers’ interests and interests at stake. “This is contrary to the mission of the Social Security Administration,” she said. Said.
In another case, she pointed to Housing and Urban Development employees who may not have been eligible for the TFUT or “taxpayer-funded union time” they applied for.
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One such worker successfully sued for compensation while in prison.
Mr. Ernst will require agencies to bill and pay TFUT, hold unused or underutilized real estate designated for use through collective bargaining, and allow agencies to provide unions and their employees with departmental Requested reporting of data on instances where property is allowed to be used at a discount or free of charge.
“Giving bureaucrats another four years of public service leave is unacceptable. They’ve had enough gap years. It’s time to get them back to work,” she said.
FOX News’ Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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