{"id":2379219,"date":"2024-12-12T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-move-at-least-30-of-sba-employees-around-the-country-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:59:12","slug":"joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-move-at-least-30-of-sba-employees-around-the-country-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-move-at-least-30-of-sba-employees-around-the-country-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Ernst introduces bill to move at least 30% of SBA employees around the country &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fjoni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-move-at-least-30-of-sba-employees-around-the-country-washington-examiner%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=2379219&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>Senator Joni \u200dErnst (R-IA) has introduced\u2063 a bill proposing to relocate \u200dat \u2062least 30% of the \u2063Small Buisness Administration (SBA) headquarters workforce to various locations across the country. In her statement to the Washington\u200d Examiner, Ernst emphasized that this move would enhance the employees&#8217; work ethic by placing them \u200bcloser to the \u2063businesses they are meant to support. The initiative aims to improve the \u200ceffectiveness\u2063 and accessibility of the SBA&#8217;s services.  <\/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\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Joni Ernst introduces bill to move at least 30% of SBA employees around the country<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1908038\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joni-ernst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Small Business Administration's\">Joni Ernst<\/a> (R-IA) introduced a bill to move at least 30% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/small-business-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Small Business Administration's\">Small Business Administration&rsquo;s<\/a> headquarters workforce nationwide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, Ernst argued that moving employees closer to the businesses they serve would improve their work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If mom-and-pop shops had the work ethic of SBA bureaucrats, they would be forced to close immediately,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;&ldquo;Connecting with an agency employee should not be a rare occurrence worthy of celebrating. There is no better way to fix the broken culture at the SBA than to bring them closer to the people they serve so that they perform more like a family business and less like a bloated bureaucracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The bill is aimed at reducing the SBA&rsquo;s headquarters office space after it said that even if 100% of employees came to work in person in Washington, D.C., only about two-thirds of headquarters capacity would be used. Ernst&rsquo;s bill would also reduce headquarters office space by 30%.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would require that the moved employees not <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">work remotely full time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move would serve to &ldquo;promote geographical diversity, including consideration of rural markets,&rdquo; and &ldquo;ensure adequate staffing throughout the regions of the Administration, to promote in-person customer service,&rdquo; the bill read.<\/p>\n<p>The moving of employees must be completed within a year of the bill&rsquo;s implementation, while the reduction of office space must be completed within two years.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst, who has made the cutting of perceived government waste a central part of her work in Congress, took up the cause against telework. At the first Department of Government Efficiency caucus meeting last week, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3250186\/joni-ernst-report-outlining-problems-government-telework-doge-caucus-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"released\">released<\/a> a detailed report outlining the extent and effects of telework.<\/p>\n<p>The report outlined the costs associated with federal workers working from home. Three percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ernst-outlines-problems-with-bureaucrat-telework-at-doge-caucus-meeting-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Ernst outlines problems with bureaucrat telework at DOGE Caucus meeting - Washington Examiner\">federal workforce teleworked daily<\/a> before COVID-19, according to the report. Now, only 6% of workers report in-person full time, with a third entirely remote. Ernst&rsquo;s report warned that telework led to slacking, with workers reportedly caught in leisurely activities while working.<\/p>\n<p>It said $8 billion is spent yearly maintaining and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-gives-musk-and-ramaswamy-a-head-start-on-cutting-trillions-in-government-spending\/\" title=\"GOP Senator Gives Musk and Ramaswamy a \u2018Head Start\u2019 on Cutting Trillions in Government Spending\">leasing government office buildings<\/a> and $7.7 billion on the energy to keep them running. The government owns 7,697 vacant buildings and another 2,265 partially empty buildings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report concluded by recommending a &ldquo;use it or lose it&rdquo; policy toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-d-c-house-member-appears-to-park-car-illegally-while-vying-for-transportation-committee-chair\/\" title=\"Watch: D.C. House Member Appears to Park Car Illegally While Vying for Transportation Committee Chair\">federal real estate<\/a>, moving federal employees closer to their place of work, ending blanket telework and instead going on a case-by-case basis, and tracking employees.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Things are so upside down in the federal government that it is more common for employees to be overpaid than to work in the office five days a week,&rdquo; Ernst said.&nbsp;&ldquo;We need to flip Washington on its head, make bureaucrats show up to work like the rest of us, and evaluate individual performance in the same way every business in America does. I am excited to work with DOGE and the Trump administration to disrupt the bureaucrat class and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-former-federal-prosecutors-bid-to-bring-common-sense-to-southern-california\/\" title=\"A Former Federal Prosecutor\u2019s Bid To Bring Common Sense to Southern California\">bring common sense<\/a> to the capital.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1908038\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1908038\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joni Ernst proposes relocating 30% of SBA staff nationwide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2379220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ernst-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33027,4762,46640,32076,46641],"class_list":["post-2379219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-joni-ernst","tag-legislation","tag-sba-employees","tag-washington-examiner","tag-workforce-mobility"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ernst-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379219","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\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379223,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379219\/revisions\/2379223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}