There are more than 2 million federal “workers.” A newly released report from the bipartisan Public Buildings Reform Board finds that just 275,336 of them, or 1.5%, are at the office full time.

Federal law requires 60% occupancy.  Has anyone alerted these federal bureaucrats that Covid ended five years ago?

Sean Salain of the Washington Times reports that a Trump order required by law, “The USE IT Act directs federal agencies to restaff their underused office space within 12 months or else get rid of it.”

The “no shows” cost the taxpayers close to $1.5 billion a year.

We’d like to see a 10% to 20% across the board RIF at federal agencies to lower federal costs and move workers out of Washington and into the productive private sector. When you’re running a $2 trillion deficit, cutting unnecessary spending is a fiscal and moral imperative.

“The lights are on, but nobody is home,” said Nick Rahall, a member of the Reform Board and a former Democratic congressman from West Virginia.