ICYMI: Ernst Gets Bureaucrats Back to Work

WASHINGTON - After U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) exposed last year that just 6% of telework eligible federal employees were showing up in-person five days a week, a recent Gallup report made clear that bureaucrats are back in the office and the days of working from home in bubble baths are over.

The report marks a clear victory for Ernst, who was the first to expose the extent of telework abuse in Washington and led the charge to get federal employees back to work and serving the American people.

Ernst joined Fox News to discuss her success in getting federal employees back in the office, how it provides much-needed occupancy data to consolidate chronically underutilized office space in Washington, and how she will auction off unneeded federal buildings with her FOR SALE Act to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and save billions of dollars in deferred maintenance.

Click here to watch her interview.

Here is some additional coverage:

Daily Caller |Federal Workers Flock Back To Office In Droves After Trump's Order Respecting 'Taxpayers Who Pay Their Salaries'

"Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst released a report on Dec. 5 that uncovered some of the problems with government employees working remotely. The report highlighted several problems linked to telework, including challenges with locality pay and the impact of largely vacant office buildings on the working environment."

NY Post | Trump's return-to-office mandate is working - with employees in DC twice as likely to work on-site

"Separately, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) found late last year that just 6% of the federal workforce were 'in-person on a full-time basis' and one-third were remote on a full-time basis."

National Review | Trump's Push to End Remote Work Succeeds as Federal Employees Return to the Office

"Ernst released a report last year showing only 6 percent of federal employees worked in the office full-time, even though the U.S. government spent billions of taxpayer dollars maintaining office buildings. She has led the charge to sell unused government buildings and compel employees to return to the office with the goal of spurring productivity."

Washington Times | Federal workers bowing to Trump's order to show up for work

"'The days of Biden's bureaucrats phoning it in from bubble baths and the beach are over,' said Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican who had been leading the return-to-work fight."

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