Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa appeared on the FOX Business Network this week to talk about the work she is doing with DOGE.
In one segment that defies parody, Ernst said that some federal employees have showed up at the office to protest having to show up at the office. If federal workers are trying to get sympathy from the public over losing their jobs, this is not the way to do it.
Millions of Americans have not had the luxury of working from home over the last few years. They get up and travel to work every single day.
The Daily Wire reports:
‘You Can’t Make This Up’: Ernst Says Remote Workers Came Back Only To Protest Returning To Office
According to Iowa GOP senator Joni Ernst, some federal employees who were forced to go back to work rather than work from home showed up at work only to protest being there.
“We actually had workers that showed up at the office to protest having to come back to work at the office,” she told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. “So we’re finding all kinds of things with the DOGE work, the SQUEAL work that I have done for ten years, and thank goodness we have President Trump and DOGE, the Office of Government Efficiency, that’s finally cracking down on these types of activities.”
Watch the video:
You can’t make this up…
Federal employees showed up to the office — not to work — but to protest returning to work.@DOGE and I are fighting to get Washington working for YOU! pic.twitter.com/qrriphp0Fn
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) April 9, 2025
Trump ordered federal workers to return to the office in one of his very first directives:
Return to In-Person Work
Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.
This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.
People in the federal government who don’t want to follow these orders should get new jobs. It’s as simple as that.
