House Republican Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California appeared on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle on Wednesday and shared that he has written a letter to the Biden Administration asking about the several federal workers who are still at home and not in the office.
“How many people are telecommuting, or how many people are actually working, because it’s not working for the American public.” he said.
“Let me give you one example. In the V.A., there’s more than 256,000 veteran benefit claims — think about that — that are backlogged. The IRS in a recent report shows they only answered the phone 14 percent of the time. But you’ve got the White House bragging about the federal workforce…92 percent have had one dosage of the vaccine. So if they’ve been vaccinated, why can’t they get back to work?” He added.
Leader McCarthy pointed that a similar thing is happening in the House Democrat Caucus
“Do you know there are members of the Democratic Caucus, from the moment they put in proxy voting here back in May 2020 that have only been back one time. Why? The vote for speaker. And then they’ve never been back again,” he said said.
“I went to court, and hopefully we might hear this week or next week what the Supreme Court’s going to do with it. But I’ve been challenging it all the way. Never in the history Congress, no matter whether it was the Civil War or whatever battle’s before us, Congress always met. We should lead by example. But these people have always been paid. They’re getting paid, but they never show up to work.” He added.
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