Before President Biden travels to Delaware, the Senate’s best DOGE Republican may take 24 letters, one for each main national organization head, requesting a stop to last-minute work-from-home negotiations. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, made the demand days after crafting legislation for 2025 that would “decentralize” and relocate one-third of the federal workforce outside Washington, D. C. That bill’s lengthy acronym spells out” DRAIN THE SWAMP Act “.Ernst said that not a single government agency’s office space is half-occupied two-plus years on from the COVID-19 pandemic, and she previously called for the Biden administration to sell off unused real estate for taxpayers ‘ benefit. ONE-THIRD OF FEDERAL WORKERS RELOCATION OUT OF DC FOR DOGE CAUCUS LEADER ERNST EYES In her letters, Ernst pointed out that only 6 % of federal employees who qualify for telework report being employed “full-time” and that 90 % of them are still working from home. Moreover, she wrote that public-sector unions are apparently “dictating personnel plan” without regard to national guidelines from the Office of Management &, Budget ( OMB), which is running up a large tabs and leading to wastes of time, space and money. In a letter prepared for Office of Personnel Management director Robert Shriver III, Ernst wrote in one email that the union leaders are rushing to plug in next moment, beautiful long-term talks with the lame-duck Biden administration that will guarantee that officials may stay at home for another four years or longer. According to her,” Protecting telework perks for public employees is a higher priority than showing up to serve American taxpayers,” she wrote, calling Biden’s submission to union demands” shocking and unacceptable.” She also noted that a similarly liberal president had vehemently opposed unionization of public employees in the first place, as Democrat Franklin Roosevelt had previously stated in a letter to a union steward declining a 1937 invitation to a national federal employee union convention ” All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service”, Roosevelt said. It has its own distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. It requires answers on a plan to exhale CHIPS ACT FUNDS BEFORE TRUMP ARRIVES. Administrative officials are unable to fully represent or bind the employer in discussions with government employee organizations because of the nature and purposes of the government. Ernst suggested that federal employees and their union representatives have forgotten Roosevelt’s warning, citing the need to ratify collective bargaining agreements and teleworker privilege pacts before President-elect Donald Trump can begin his oversight efforts through DOGE.” The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.” Ernst cited instances where she claimed union bosses and career agency management have the “government wrapped around their finger” as evidence in the letters. MartinO’Malley was wearing a Captain America T-shirt alongside a alleged union official at a party while he was Biden’s social security administrator. Ernst cited reports thatO’Malley was planning to party with union members in Florida before signing a deal that would have prevented a simple reduction in work-from-home ability. She saidO’Malley spent the trip” crooning” Irish ballads on his guitar and drinking alcohol. She claimed that the Social Security Commissioner’s and the union bosses representing his workforce’s behavior during what was supposed to be a negotiation resulted in a contract that was unbelievably skewed toward the union and against the agency’s goals and the interests of the taxpayer. In another case, she pointed to Housing &, Urban Development employees who may not have deserved the TFUT or “taxpayer-funded union time” they filed for. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPOne worker who successfully claimed compensation while incarcerated. Ernst demanded that the agencies report information on TFUT claims and payouts, unrestricted or underused real estate holdings subject to collective bargaining, as well as any instances where each agency permits unions or their employees to use department property for a discount or for free. ” Giving bureaucrats another four-year vacation from the office is unacceptable. Bureaucrats have had enough gap years—it’s time to get them back to work”, she said. Julia Johnson of Fox News contributed to this report.