Musk, Ramaswamy Eye Five-Day Office Week for Federal Workers
- Trump allies want federal workers back in office full-time
- Federal worker change could meet resistance with worker unions
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to lead the newly formed task force to review government spending — said they will push for eliminating work-from-home policies for federal workers, an idea that could spark clashes between the new administration and government employee unions.
“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” they wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday.