The federal-office ghost town: a fine target for DOGE

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The federal-office ghost town: a fine target for DOGE
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Years after the pandemic’s end, only 6% of federal employees are reporting in-person to the office, while nearly a third are remote full-time.

Elon Musk carries his son after a meeting about President-elect Donald Trump 's planned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.Kudos to Sen. Joni Ernst for digging deep enough to get the real facts: Years after the pandemic’s end,“The nation’s capital is a ghost town,” Ernst railed, citing an abysmal 12% occupancy rate at DC’s federal office buildings.

Last year, Team Biden demanded agencies “substantially increase meaningful in-person work,” but union leaders rebelled, with one insisting that new guidance “does not override collective-bargaining agreements.” President Franklin Roosevelt — a liberal Democrat — clearly had it right about the danger of collective bargaining power for unions in the federal government: Public-sector unions have proved a bane for federal, state and local governments.

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