Laura Strickler is a senior investigative producer and reporter for NBC News. She is based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk's new effort to increase government efficiency could initially target the nearly two-thirds of federal workers who are still approved to work from home 18 months after the pandemic ended. Vacant federal office space in downtown Washington is costly to maintain and a deep source of frustration to Mayor Muriel Bowser.
She also argued that Ramaswamy and Musk’s claims are exaggerated. “This includes all the health care workers at VA hospitals and clinics and corrections officers at the Bureau of Prisons,' she told NBC News. 'And Border Patrol agents and federal air marshals and people who inspect slaughterhouses and meat processing plants.' With fewer people in the office, the cost of excess federal office space has become a concern.
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