Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has sent 24 letters to major federal agency heads demanding a stop to last-minute work-from-home negotiations before President Biden returns to Delaware. This move comes after Ernst introduced legislation for 2025 aimed at 'decentralizing' and relocating one-third of the federal workforce outside Washington, D.C., known as the 'DRAIN THE SWAMP Act.'
Ernst highlighted that despite the COVID-19 pandemic being over two years old, not a single government agency's office space is half-occupied. She emphasized that 90% of telework-eligible federal employees are still working from home, with only 6% doing so on a full-time basis.
