Reps. James Comer, Pete Sessions, and Lauren Boebert led letters to 25 agencies with several of their House GOP colleagues regarding the Biden administration's remote work policies.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra refused to answer questions on March 22, 2023, about how many of his employees at headquarters are still telecommuting, more than three years after the COVID pandemic.lawmakers led letters to 25 Biden administration agencies regarding their telework programs.
"This is occurring in an apparently indiscriminate, unaccountable manner, without oversight from the White House or the Office of Personnel Management – whose Director could not tell members what portion of federal employees are teleworking when she appeared before the Committee in March," Comer continued.
"Taxpayers expect the same from public servants, but telework policies and outcomes are unclear across the federal government," Sessions said."These letters will provide necessary information to allow for increased oversight and transparency." Boebert said that while"many hard-working Americans were working through the pandemic, federal bureaucrats were lounging at home and not even logging in to their computers."
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