It’s time for millions of federal employees to return to the office…
On Monday night, a freshly sworn-in President Donald Trump signed 200 executive actions — including one mandating that federal employees return to the office five days a week.
Sorry, gang — the pandemic is long over.
According to CBS News, “The executive order was one of multiple directives targeting the federal workforce of 2.3 million that in addition to the return-to-office mandate includes a hiring freeze, revamped hiring rules and other moves to make career senior employees easier to fire.”
“There have been numerous and well-documented cases of career Federal employees resisting and undermining the policies and directives of their executive leadership,” stated one of the executive orders signed by the president on Monday evening. “Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service.”
Both Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk shared a clip of Trump signing the order on X.
“Pretending to work while taking money from taxpayers is no longer acceptable,” Musk wrote.
“No more showing up to work one day a month. If you’re going to collect a paycheck from the government, you actually have to show up to work!” Trump Jr. shared, along with the clip.
Watch the moment below:
Pretending to work while taking money from taxpayers is no longer acceptable https://t.co/EEqGmPVkrw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2025
“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome,” Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who is stepping aside as DOGE co-lead, wrote last year in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
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