[PJ] Last September, White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients ordered cabinet secretaries to try harder to bring the workers in their departments back to the office. Joe Biden had been coming under increasing pressure from Republicans in Congress to order the secretaries to bring office workers back. Rep. James Comer introduced legislation to force the administration to take concrete steps to accomplish that goal.
"The federal workforce needs to get back to work," said Kentucky Rep. James Comer just before a vote on his bill, the SHOW UP Act, which aimed to bring federal workers back into their offices. "Federal agencies are falling short on their missions. They are not carrying out their duties. They are failing the American people."
Biden was also hearing it from Washington, D.C. politicians , including Mayor Muriel Bowser who pointed out that the office vacancy rate in DC was stifling the economic recovery.
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Here we are, four months later, and very little has changed. Zients took the extraordinary step of calling out cabinet members for their recalcitrance