{"id":1993532,"date":"2023-08-07T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-oversight-threatens-subpoenas-on-biden-administration-officials-for-work-from-home-policies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:50:55","slug":"house-oversight-threatens-subpoenas-on-biden-administration-officials-for-work-from-home-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-oversight-threatens-subpoenas-on-biden-administration-officials-for-work-from-home-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"House Oversight Committee threatens subpoenas for Biden administration officials over remote work policies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-oversight-threatens-subpoenas-on-biden-administration-officials-for-work-from-home-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Oversight Committee\u2062 Threatens Subpoenas Over Biden Administration&#8217;s Work-From-Home Policies<\/h2>\n<p>The Republican-led \u200dHouse Oversight Committee has taken a bold stance, threatening to subpoena members of the Biden administration over the lingering work-from-home policies in government agencies, even as the COVID-19 pandemic\u200c comes to an end. In a letter shared on\u200b Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/section-of-justice-declines-in-order-to-prosecute-meadows-scavino-working-blow-to-january-six-committee\/\" title=\"Section of Justice Declines in order to Prosecute Meadows, Scavino, Working Blow to January six Committee\">committee expressed frustration<\/a> \u2064with the\u2062 lack of transparency regarding \u2062the number of \u200bemployees still working remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Management and Budget had previously instructed agencies to develop plans for increasing in-person work back in April. However, \u2063despite the committee&#8217;s request, no details regarding\u200b the extent of remote work were provided. This lack of information has left the committee to make \u2063assumptions and draw their \u2064own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers emphasized\u200b the importance of their \u200coversight role in ensuring that agencies can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-oversight-threatens-subpoenas-on-biden-administration-officials-for-work-from-home-policies\/\" title=\"House Oversight Committee threatens subpoenas for Biden administration officials over remote work policies.\">effectively hold employees\u200d accountable<\/a> and \u200bfulfill their missions amidst the shift to widespread telework. Their concern lies in the \u200cfact \u2064that\u2064 federal agencies seem to be unaware \u200dof how many employees are currently working remotely and the\u200b frequency of such arrangements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;One of \u200btwo options \u200cis \u200bcurrently playing out: either federal agencies are withholding information from Congress or federal agencies are not tracking telework and remote work policies \u200das required by the law. Both \u2063possibilities are deeply \u2062concerning,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairman James\u200b Comer (R-KY)\u2062 and committee members \u200dPete Sessions (R-TX) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) expressed their determination to seek \u200danswers and warned that if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-u-s-attorneys-office-probing-n-y-nursing-home-death-scandal\/\" title=\"FBI, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office probing N.Y. nursing home death scandal\">federal agencies continue<\/a> to withhold information,\u200b they will resort to\u200c compulsory\u200d measures.<\/p>\n<p>The committee&#8217;s\u200c letter was sent \u2064to multiple \u200cfederal agencies following an internal memo from the White House urging Cabinet secretaries \u200bto bring more\u200d employees back to the office. White House\u200c chief of staff Jeff\u2062 Zients emphasized President Joe Biden&#8217;s priority of prioritizing in-person work and urged agencies to fulfill this request &#8220;aggressively&#8221;\u200b in September and October.<\/p>\n<p>The agencies have until August 18 \u2062to respond to the committee&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<h3>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Oversight Committee, led by Republicans, plans to subpoena Biden administration members due to ongoing work-from-home policies in government agencies. Despite the pandemic&#8217;s end, these policies remain in effect. The committee highlighted that the Office of Management and Budget had directed agencies to create plans for expanding remote work in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}