Work at home insurance policies got here beneath hearth from X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as he and Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy took their plans to scale back authorities waste to the flooring of Congress Thursday.
The businessmen, who had been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to guide an out of doors advisory board known as the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), attended a number of closed-door conferences with GOP senators and Home members to promote their plans to chop as a lot as $2 trillion from the federal funds of what they known as waste.
“I believe we should always make certain we spend the general public’s cash nicely,” Musk advised reporters between the conferences.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly introduced Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on Dec. 05, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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Musk posted on his social media platform X from contained in the Capitol about what he and Ramaswamy say is a key difficulty for DOGE: The variety of federal workers working from house.
The Federal Workplace of Administration and Price range launched a report in August that discovered “as of Might 2024, roughly 50% of federal staff labored each day in roles that aren’t eligible for telework, together with those that work onsite offering healthcare to our veterans, inspecting our meals provide, and managing Federal pure sources.”
Musk shared a brand new report from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the chair of the Senate DOGE caucus, which claimed solely 6% of federal staff present up in particular person to work on a full-time foundation. Many others make money working from home part-time, and roughly one-third make money working from home full-time, in keeping with the report.
“When you exclude safety guards & upkeep personnel, the variety of authorities staff who present up in particular person and do 40 hours of labor per week is nearer to 1%! Nearly nobody,” Musk posted in response to the report.
Ernst’s report consists of a number of anecdotes and alleged social media posts about federal workers who labored from house, together with a Division of Veterans Affairs supervisor who posted a photograph of himself working from a bath. Ernst’s workforce included the photograph of their report.
The OMB report discovered that “telework-eligible personnel spent roughly 60% of normal, working hours inperson, at agency-assigned job websites.”
Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Co-Chair of the newly introduced Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on Dec. 05, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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Musk has been a staunch opponent of work-from-home insurance policies and eliminated such insurance policies from his companies, together with X. He threatened layoffs for X workers who didn’t comply along with his coverage, which instructed any particular requests for distant work wanted to be reviewed by him earlier than approval.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson was slated to carry a information convention with Musk and Ramaswamy concerning the conferences later Thursday afternoon.
