This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing.
To be fair, just because an employee is working remotely doesn’t mean they aren’t working. Only a little more than half of private sector workers are actually in the office these days — although, with each passing day, private workers are returning to work sites. But in the public sector, the percentage of remote workers remains much higher than that. The Federal Times news outlet reports that at the end of 2022, only about one in three federal bureaucrats were on the job in the office.
Wait. The COVID scare ended two and a half years ago, and most private businesses have demanded their employees show up for work at least some of the time — or find a new employer. What’s so special and privileged about government workers?
Now, new House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is pushing a bill that would require all federal agencies to reinstitute their telework policies as they existed on Dec. 31, 2019, with expanded remote work only for authorized projects. That bill passed the House on a 221-206 vote. Guess what? All but six House Democrats voted no.
Who are the Democrats accountable to? Federal employees, or their own taxpayer voters and constituents who pay these workers’ salaries? This vote makes the answer to that question crystal clear. So, the rest of America in private sector jobs is back to work, but not the 1.9 million federal employees, who often make $100,000 a year in salaries and benefits.
All of this is an outrageous abuse of taxpayer money, but there is a silver lining here. Raise your hand if you’ve even noticed that federal workers are not showing up at the Department of Energy or Education or Transportation or the State Department or the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Indeed the nation would notice. No more social security checks cut, corps of engineers would stop construction work on roads, bridges, dams, etc. Medicare would halt, our military would suffer without direction, national defense systems would leave us blind. Federal civilians (less than 3 million) work each and every day (including weekends) to make sure services are provided and systems continue to operation…..for the nation. Less than 3 million (not including contractors – who oh by the way only do what they are contracted to do, supervised by federal civilians).
We really dont want to entertain or go down the road of removing the federal civilian workforce.
Less than 3 million to support over 330 million US residents. Do the math, feds are less than 1% of the population yet get blasted all the time.
They don’t show up and hit the clock they don’t get paid
they have stopped showing up and no one has noticed! just a gravy job for those who would otherwise be on welfare!