{"id":2376864,"date":"2024-12-05T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-and-vivek-issue-first-doge-decision-and-94-percent-of-feds-will-be-hit-first\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T19:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:27:27","slug":"elon-and-vivek-issue-first-doge-decision-and-94-percent-of-feds-will-be-hit-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-and-vivek-issue-first-doge-decision-and-94-percent-of-feds-will-be-hit-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon and Vivek Issue First DOGE Decision, And 94 Percent of Feds Will Be Hit First"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Felon-and-vivek-issue-first-doge-decision-and-94-percent-of-feds-will-be-hit-first%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=2376864&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--><p>Republican Senator Joni Ernst from\u2062 Iowa has introduced the REMOTE act, aimed at increasing efficiency within the federal government. the bill proposes \u2063monitoring the computer usage of remote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-signed-40-executive-orders-and-actions-since-taking-office\/\" title=\"Biden has signed 40 executive orders and actions since taking office\">federal employees<\/a>, requiring government agencies to report on the performance \u200band\u2062 productivity \u2062of teleworkers. Ernst expressed \u2064that the act is part of a broader effort to challenge the status quo\u2063 in Washington and reduce \u2064perceived inefficiencies in government operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ernst\u2019s findings,while prior to the COVID-19 pandemic only 3% of federal employees teleworked daily,currently \u2064around one-third are fully remote. \u200bConcerns\u2063 have \u2062been raised about accountability, wiht reports of employees engaging in \u2063non-work-related activities \u200dduring work hours, including one \u2064instance\u2063 of \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-zoom-call-shows-us-federal-employees-conspiring-to-sabotage-the-trump-administration-video\/\" title=\"Leaked Zoom Call Shows US Federal Employees Conspiring to Sabotage the Trump Administration (VIDEO)\">federal worker<\/a> participating in a meeting from a bathtub.The bill is intended \u2063to ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal workers<\/a>\u200d are accountable \u200dfor their productivity while\u2063 teleworking, suggesting a possible return to more customary office environments if productivity cannot be \u200cproven.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A Republican senator is proposing a bill that she says would give the Trump administration&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency a head start on making government more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has proposed the REMOTE Act, which will monitor bureaucrats&rsquo; computer use and require agencies to report on the downside of telework, according to the U.K.&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14161837\/first-major-doge-directive-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-joni-ernst-teleworkers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would require that agencies review how much work remote federal employees actually do: including the &ldquo;average number of logins made&rdquo; by every federal worker and the amount of time spent on the federal network.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The American people gave us a mandate to shake up business as usual in Washington and drain the swamp. That starts with getting the bureaucrat class to climb out of the bubble bath, put away the golf clubs, and get back to work,&rdquo; Ernst said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/05\/congress\/ernst-signals-00192769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst is the chair of the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-ramaswamy-lay-exact-plan-destroying-federal-bureaucracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOGE<\/a> Caucus and has met with &nbsp;Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to pitch her ideas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-doge-caucus-take-government-telework-abuse-first-meeting-musk-ramaswamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>One of Ernst&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-senator-gives-musk-ramaswamy-head-start-cutting-trillions-government-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major proposals<\/a> is to reduce the number of federal employees who do not regularly come into their offices.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst recently released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000193-974e-d608-ab9f-d74fd2690000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> saying federal workers &ldquo;have been found in a bubble bath, on the golf course, running their own business, and even getting busted doing crime while on taxpayers&rsquo; time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just 3 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">federal workforce teleworked daily prior<\/a> to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, 6 percent of workers report in-person on a full-time basis, while nearly one-third are entirely remote,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Most federal employees are eligible to telework and 90 percent of those are. Some come to the office as infrequently as once a week,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that as thousands of federal workers allegedly do their jobs from home, &ldquo;no one is checking to make sure everyone made it to work or even logged on to their computer. Backlogs for services are typical and accountability is rare. It took years to fire a senior IRS employee who routinely abused his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/large-companies-roll-back-remote-work-make-employees-show-up-to-the-office-at-least-part-of-the-week\/\" title=\"Large Companies Roll Back Remote Work, Make Employees Show Up To The Office At Least Part Of The Week\">remote work arrangement<\/a> by playing golf during the workday for nearly a decade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She noted one federal worker who conducted a remote meeting from a bathtub while taking a bubble bath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/joni-ernst-bestows-wasteful-government-spending-award-department-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernst<\/a> noted that remote work took root at the dawn of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Washington is still operating as if it&rsquo;s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned. Government employees are scattered and often unreachable,&rdquo; her report said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The failure of managers to set the right example and properly monitor teleworkers creates an &lsquo;anything goes&rsquo; attitude with other employees,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that over 90 percent of the employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development work from home with only one day a week in the office required.<\/p>\n<p>The report also said that some federal workers pad their pay by claiming to work in one location while they actually work from home in an area where, according to federal rules, they should receive a lower salary.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst said that the solution requires proof that employees working from home are productive. 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Senator Joni Ernst from Iowa has put forward the REMOTE Act, designed to track bureaucrats&#8217; computer usage and mandate agencies to report on the drawbacks of teleworking, as reported by the U.K.&#8217;s Daily Mail. The legislation would require agencies to assess the productivity of remote federal employees by monitoring their login frequency and time spent on federal networks. Ernst stated that Americans expect a shake-up in Washington&#8217;s status quo and emphasized that bureaucrats need to return to work instead of being distracted by leisure activities. She also highlighted issues with federal employees not regularly attending their offices and cited instances where workers were found engaging in non-work-related activities during work hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2376865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ramaswamy-and-Musk.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46218,23466,32192,32663,32072],"class_list":["post-2376864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency-news","tag-doge","tag-elon-musk","tag-federal-reserve","tag-vivek-ramaswamy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ramaswamy-and-Musk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376864","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=2376864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376869,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376864\/revisions\/2376869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}