Standing in front of the Office of Personnel Management\u2019s headquarters in downtown Washington D.C., Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson said she\u2019s fighting what she considers the epitome of government waste: empty federal offices due to remote work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has been over for quite some time,\u201d she said in a video posted to Twitter on July 26. \u201cAmericans are back to work. But you know who\u2019s not back to work? Federal bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The video, which Hinson\u2019s office offered to Federal Times in lieu of a statement, comes on the heels of findings by the Government Accountability Office<\/a> that 17 of the 24 federal agency headquarters are using roughly a quarter of their building capacity. Hinson told Iowa reporters for the Quad-City Times<\/a> that \u201cfederal agencies shouldn\u2019t be wasting taxpayer money by operating at minimal capacity.\u201d Agencies either need to give up those leases or increase in-person work, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n