Donald Trump put Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Musk and Ramaswamy’s mission is to get a handle on America’s national debt.
And Jesse Watters revealed Elon Musk’s secret plan to slash $2 trillion in spending.
Fire workers who won’t show up to the office
Ever since the COVID pandemic, work from home took root in American life.
It’s especially costly in government.
Jesse Watters reported that nearly 90 percent of government buildings sit empty because of work from home rules that Watters showed allowed grown male government employees to post pictures of themselves taking bubble baths while on the clock.
“Almost 90% of government office buildings are completely empty, so where is everyone? One manager at veterans affairs took a picture of himself working from a bubble bath. He called it ‘my office for the next hour.’ What kind of man takes a bubble bath? Men age out of bubble baths at five. If you’re a guy and you’re alone in a bubble bath, that’s a problem. You have to have someone with you,” Watters stated.
Stephen Miller joined Watters as his guest and declared that on day one, grown men taking bubble baths and claiming they were at work was finished.
“Grown men should not be taking bubble baths. They certainly should not be doing their work from home in a bubble bath,” Miller stated. “It’s so emblematic of the contempt that so many people in the swamp have for the people who pay their salaries.”
Ending work from home was a day one priority for President Trump.
“When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and that new golden age of America begins, he’s gonna tell the federal workers of this country who your viewers pay for to get back into the office and do their jobs or find another line of work,” Miller added.
DOGE plans to target work from home
On the campaign trail, Elon Musk said he wanted to cut $2 trillion in spending.
DOGE plans to focus on the low hanging fruit.
Musk and Ramaswamy already targeted work from home in an op-ed the pair authored in the Wall Street Journal.
The pair claimed instituting mandatory return to the office polices would result in a wave of government employees quitting, leading to massive savings for taxpayers.
“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 Ramaswamy wrote. “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”
The Congressional DOGE Caucus later posted a report stating that just six percent of federal workers show up to the office five days a week.
Musk said that number was even lower.
“If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%! Almost no one,” Musk wrote.
Getting rid of workers who won’t actually show up to work is a good start towards reaching $2 trillion in spending cuts.
