A day’s work product lost (UPDATED)

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Trans women [sic] take over US Capitol's restroom in protest

UPDATE: On the other hand, maybe not — no government workers (sic again) were there, probably.

Senate report shows only 6% of federal workers show up to work in person, and that's just the tip of the iceberg

A paltry 6% of the federal workforce 'report in-person on a full-time basis' while almost one-third of federal workers are remote on a full-time basis, in a sharp turn-around from the pre-pandemic era in which only 3% teleworked daily, a report from Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) office found.

Ernst, who has long crusaded against the rise in remote federal work, is planning to reveal the fruits of her office's year-and-a-half inquiry to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy during their visit to the Capitol Thursday.

'The nation's capital is a ghost town, with government buildings averaging an occupancy rate of 12[%],' Ernst wrote in the blistering report. 'If federal employees can't be found at their desks, exactly where are they?'

I don’t want them to work; I just don’t want to pay them.