District 1 Congressman and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise led colleagues in passing a bill requiring federal workers to return to the office. It’s dubbed the “SHOW UP Act”; an acronym for Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems. On the House floor, Scalise tells members the government should be held to the same standard as taxpayers…:
“This bill just says ‘show up to work; to do your job. To serve those millions of people who’re paying your salaries and counting on you to get the job done.”
Scalise says Americans have largely gone back to their workplaces after the pandemic, and they wonder why the federal government is still operating in lockdown mode. He cites the Veterans Administration as an example of the so-called “unproductive problems”…:
“And when you call the VA and they can’t get your health care records, because there are people who are still not AT the office. Those are things you can’t do remotely, and those veterans wait for help. That hurts people.”
Scalise says un-staffed government offices is causing come to wait a year or more for tax refund checks, wait 6 months to renew a passport and other problems. He says taxpayers are growing impatient with the government they pay for…:
“When you see what’s happening with so many other people, who are counting on the federal government to take care of their needs…and they wonder, ‘why haven’t they gone back to work, when I have I have had to go back to work?’”
The bill passed the House. Whether the Democrat-controlled Senate will even take it up for discussion is unknown.
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