Bring on the DOGE revolution
Government agencies need to provide some accountability to taxpayers
An explosive new report from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Caucus, notes that fewer than 1 of out every 10 federal employees (6%) work in an office full time, citing an April survey.“If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%!” posted Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading DOGE with fellow billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, in response to the report. “Almost no one.”
Sure, federal employees in many roles can be productive at home. But the report from Ernst, an Iowa Republican, raises serious questions about whether there is any real culture of accountability at federal agencies. Occasional work from home is a privilege—and federal agencies should be careful to limit it to good employees and regularly be tracking performance and productivity metrics.
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When it comes to federal employees, the taxpayers are the bosses—and the taxpayers elected Donald Trump, whose allies are signaling it’s a new day in Washington for federal employees. It’s about time.
3 comments:
How do all the people in the Border Patrol, HSI, National Park Service and FAA air traffic controllers work from home? And are all those buildings in DC empty now? Who rides the Metro? How does Customs clear people at the airports from home? I had no idea that all this was going on.
I am assuming it is not every department as some are essential workers. But only 1% who have an office to go to show up at their office according to this report.
Don't forget about NOAA and the National Weather Service and how about the federal courts and the federal prisons. How do the guards work from home? This doesn't make any sense to me.
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