D.C.-area federal workers targeted with trio of bills

[Anonymous]

Telework is what enables my agency to have a nationwide workforce and NOT be tied to any one location (be it the DC area or some other place).

[Anonymous]

We literally have a telework tracking system. It tracks when we're on the VPN. They tried a more in depth tracking system once but it kept crashing the VPN because the constant data reporting ate up so much traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

I hope every single person in DC, from the trash man to hospitals, refuse service to this lying b!t*h. Substantively, if Congress agrees on these measures, so be it, but to call it Drain the Swamp is hugely offensive.

I'd also like to point out that this will cost a lot of money.

Um, those aren't the jobs she's talking about. Nice try though. News flash: Feds, you aren't indentured servants. If you don't like the terms, stop working on the backs of tax payers and get real jobs.

Oh look it’s the angry, Fed-hating troll. Thanks for showing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

I hope every single person in DC, from the trash man to hospitals, refuse service to this lying b!t*h. Substantively, if Congress agrees on these measures, so be it, but to call it Drain the Swamp is hugely offensive.

I'd also like to point out that this will cost a lot of money.

Um, those aren't the jobs she's talking about. Nice try though. News flash: Feds, you aren't indentured servants. If you don't like the terms, stop working on the backs of tax payers and get real jobs.

I'm well aware those aren't the jobs, but if Ernst hates DC so much I urge DC to hate her right back. She's a liar trying to score political points on the backs of people who staff her office, work in the cafeteria where she eats, secure the building where she works, etc. Like I said, if Congress wants to take this up and pass it, fine, but calling people the swamp is offensive, especially when you're a Senator and are a major part of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 15 weeks in 2025 when the Senate isn’t even scheduled to be in session— and I can’t even remember the last time they did their jobs and actually passed a budget/appropriations for the fiscal year, instead of just doing a continuing resolution to stave off a shutdown.

If Joni Ernst is worried about lazy, unproductive federal workers she should look in the mirror instead of trying to score cheap political points off the backs of the hardworking people who actually keep the government running for the American people.

+1000000

[Anonymous]

Don’t most agencies already have 30% of their workforces out of DC? Most feds aren’t in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

I hope every single person in DC, from the trash man to hospitals, refuse service to this lying b!t*h. Substantively, if Congress agrees on these measures, so be it, but to call it Drain the Swamp is hugely offensive.

I'd also like to point out that this will cost a lot of money.

Why do trash man or nurses care? They can't work remotely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

Sounds good to me. Plenty of people here say they are getting the job done remotely, why keep the agency in a HCOLA if that is the case?

Spread the wealth, isn’t that the moto for democrats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

Sounds good to me. Plenty of people here say they are getting the job done remotely, why keep the agency in a HCOLA if that is the case?

Spread the wealth, isn’t that the moto for democrats?

So for those jobs that can be done remotely, they should just offer remote while paying RUS pay, and let the worker sort it out if they can afford to live on that salary. Moving buildings and staff is expensive, so why go through that when you can save on office space AND around 10-15k a year on salaries by allowing remote work?

[Anonymous]

MAGA and the House Freedom Caucus wants to cut federal jobs, not move them elsewhere at taxpayer expense. That idea isn’t going anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they can make a law called the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Do you think that name’s taken?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, proposed legislation this week that would force agencies to move 30% of their D.C.-based workforce out of the region, mandate telework tracking, and push agencies to move their headquarters out of the nation’s capital.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/ernst-targets-dc-area-federal-workers-trio-bills/402099/

Sounds good to me. Plenty of people here say they are getting the job done remotely, why keep the agency in a HCOLA if that is the case?

Spread the wealth, isn’t that the moto for democrats?

So this is an argument for what happens 10% of the time now -- fully remote workers who make the locality pay of their 'office', which is their home. It's also an argument to move more fully online and not have much of an actual office footprint at all. I'm fully supportive of this. 85% of feds are already outside of the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Moving work out of DC seems reasonable, and achievable with horse trading like they do for national labs and defense manufacturing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving work out of DC seems reasonable, and achievable with horse trading like they do for national labs and defense manufacturing

85% of federal employees are already outside of the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moving work out of DC seems reasonable, and achievable with horse trading like they do for national labs and defense manufacturing

But what is the actual point of moving work out of DC?

Should the movie industry have the goal of moving work out of California? Should the financial industry have the goal of moving work out of NYC? Should the agriculture industry have the goal of moving work out of Iowa?