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The Biden regime’s recent move to protect work-from-home privilege for tens of thousands of government workers doesn’t pass muster with President-elect Donald J. Trump who vowed to challenge it.

During a Monday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, the soon-to-be 47th president told reporters that he plans to challenge the administration’s deal with the union representing the Social Security Administration (SSA) that locked in remote work through the end of his term, a sneaky way to undermine efforts to restore efficiency to the federal government.

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“We’re talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition as they like to say, this is a friendly transition, and it is,” Trump said. “But there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible.”

“One is that if people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that. So that for five years, people don’t have to come back into the office,” he added.

“It involved 49,000 people for five years. They don’t have to go. They just signed this thing. It’s ridiculous. So it was like a gift to a union, and we’re going to obviously be in court to stop it,” Trump pledged.

The incoming president was referring to the deal struck by now-former SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) that “places current levels of telework into our National Agreement through October 25, 2029.”

Details of the deal that would protect the loafers from workplace scrutiny were first reported by Bloomberg which said that around 42,000 workers would be affected.

The agreement allows the SSA to “maintain current levels of telework,” the union’s chapter president Rich Couture wrote, according to Bloomberg.

The union reacted by vowing to fight to protect the agreement with AFGE National President Everett Kelley vowing a court battle.

“Collective bargaining agreements entered into by the federal government are binding and enforceable under the law. We trust the incoming administration will abide by their obligations to honor lawful union contracts. If they fail to do so, we will be prepared to enforce our rights,” Kelley said in a statement issued after Trump’s remarks.

The union boss also minimized the impact of the agreement.

“Rumors of widespread federal telework and remote work are simply untrue. More than half of federal employees cannot telework at all because of the nature of their jobs, only ten percent of federal workers are remote, and those who have a hybrid arrangement spend over sixty percent of working hours in the office,” he said.

Once he takes the oath of office, Trump will unleash the brand-new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is helmed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy who have a mission to sniff out and eliminate government waste to improve efficiency, and they have their job cut out for them.

“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home,” the DOGE duo wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed laying out their ideas that were published last month.

“If you require most of those federal bureaucrats to just say, like normal working Americans, you come to work five days a week, a lot of them won’t want to do that,” Ramaswamy said during a Fox News appearance last month. “If you have many voluntary reductions in force of the workforce in the federal government along the way, great. That’s a good side effect of those policies as well.”

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