GOP Seizes on Musk Plan to Force Federal Workers Back to Office

Ending federal telework is one of the few specific proposals that’s caught Republican lawmakers’ attention among the array of ideas pitched by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s cost-cutting “Department of Government Efficiency.”

Top GOP appropriators and hard-line conservatives have set aside disagreements on spending in favor of cracking down on remote work for federal employees, a practice that has increasingly rankled Republicans since it grew in response to the pandemic. They are now betting on the incoming Trump administration and new legislation to end it.

“That’d be my first cut, right there,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said of remote work ...