One of the things that was a bit stunning when President Donald Trump got back into office was that so many people were working remotely with offices empty. So, Trump issued an executive order telling everyone they had to be back in the office. 

For example, the Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler explained what it was like when she showed up to work and found a whole lot of empty in the offices. 

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Now, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who is the chair of the Senate DOGE caucus, is outlining some of the wild things they have encountered in addressing the remote work problem. Here are some of the shocking things that she outlined to the Homeland Security Committee.

A Veterans Affairs manager responsible for scheduling veterans appointments posted on social media that he was “phoning it in from a bubble bath” while calls to the VA have gone unanswered. An Army veteran gave up on getting mental healthcare from the VA because after years of trying to get an appointment, he met with a therapist who “spent the appointment singing the praises of remote work with a cat draped around her neck.” He said that it was such a disaster that “now I’m just on my meds doing my best.” A HUD employee was arrested for drunk driving at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Friday and may have been paid for time spent sitting in jail, HUD had no idea until I told them. For more than three years, a Social Security employee was running a home inspection business. Meanwhile, his mother was responding to his emails.

You can’t make this up…

Federal employees showed up to the office — not to work — but to protest returning to work.@DOGE and I are fighting to get Washington working for YOU! pic.twitter.com/qrriphp0Fn

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) April 9, 2025

She said that after the directive by Trump, they had workers finally show up at the office -- to protest having to show up at the office. As Ernst said, "You can't make this up." If you did, no one would believe it. She also praised the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for finally cracking down on these things. 

If people are protesting actually having to show up for work, that sounds like people who want/need a pink slip. That sounds like the most entitled thing ever -- on the taxpayers' dime. How deep did all this go and how much productivity did we lose because of all this nonsense? How ironic; this was what got them into the office. 

Incredible that it's things like this that the left seems to want to defend, as they attack President Trump, DOGE, and Elon Musk, instead of curing the waste and the insanity.  What a great thing that all of this is finally being exposed. This will no doubt do great things for productivity as well. 

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