U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haley) is optimistic that the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will help in his effort to get federal employees back in their offices.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that he is appointing Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to head DOGE, which will be tasked with rooting out wasteful spending and inefficiencies that currently exist in the vast federal government bureaucracy.

“I’ve been working in Congress since earlier this year to get federal employees back to their jobs,” Aderholt said. “I’m glad that we will soon have new warriors joining that fight in [Elon Musk] and [Vivek Ramaswamy].”

I've been working in Congress since earlier this year to get federal employees back to their jobs. I'm glad that we will soon have new warriors joining that fight in @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy pic.twitter.com/Ddefmf62AK

— Robert Aderholt (@Robert_Aderholt) November 20, 2024

Aderholt is proposing to cut in half the budgets of the agencies in D.C. that are not using a majority of their office spaces and instead allowing too many of the employees to work remotely.

“That gets their attention,” Aderholt told Fox News. “That really going to cause a lot of these to say, ‘We need to look at our policy, especially this blanket policy.”

The congressman was shocked how many workers in some of these bureaucracies still work from home.

“We’re hearing just astronomical numbers of people in these federal agencies that are not showing up to work.”

U.S. Rep Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) has also been sounding the alarm on this issue for over a year.

“When the bees leave the hive, they’re not making honey,” Palmer said last November. “Our federal workforce refuses to return to the office and productivity is suffering.”

When the bees leave the hive, they're not making honey. Our federal workforce refuses to return to the office and productivity is suffering.

This includes useless bureaucrats like @GSACarnahan who spent nearly 50% of her workdays in a calendar year away from her office in D.C. pic.twitter.com/z7gFRq5NsS

— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) November 14, 2023

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee