IR-MESS! IRS Workers Only Had to Show Up for Work One Day a Week Before Trump 2.0: Report

According to a New York Post report, IRS workers only had to report to the office one day a week until President Donald Trump was elected for a second term and started cracking down on remote work.

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), who heads the Senate’s DOGE committee, unearthed the arrangement.

“While the American people are working hard, the tax collectors are trying to hardly work,” Ernst, head of the Senate DOGE Caucus, quipped to The Post about the unearthed IRS telework policy.

From The New York Post:

Under the IRS’ most recent collective bargaining agreement brokered between the agency and its union last October, employees were eligible to telework up to eight days per biweekly pay period.

IRS officials had raised concerns that the generous telework policy would “impede on the agency’s ability to serve its client, the IRS, and taxpayers” and adversely impact worker performance. They cited their experiences during the pandemic, when remote work became widespread.

They also fretted that the cushy policy flouted rules from the Treasury Department, which oversees the tax-collecting agency, requiring it to have at least 40% of its workforce show up in person.

However, an arbitrator brushed those concerns aside and rejected the IRS’ push for a six-day telework cap per pay period.

“To hold telework solely responsible for such issues is inappropriate,” the arbitrator in union negotiations with the IRS concluded. “Given the need for supervisors to assess the portability of an individual employee’s work, I am not convinced there should be an arbitrary six-day cap.”

That deal between the IRS and its union, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), was negotiated using taxpayer funding, a pet peeve of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), whose office unearthed the cushy telework arrangement.

It is not immediately clear how many taxpayer dollars were used to fund the IRS union negotiations. Back in 2019, the last time data was fully available, agencies across the federal bureaucracy spent $160 million on taxpayer-funded union time.

More over at The New York Post:

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— New York Post (@nypost) April 18, 2025

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