In a Thursday, December 5 discussion with Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters, adviser to President-elect Donald Trump Stephen Miller vowed that he would fight against such horrendous waste and inefficiencies as federal staffers doing their work from their bathtubs, something a Veterans Affairs staffer gloated about doing recently.
The conversation comes amidst the bigger issue that Elon Musk wants to sort out through the Department of Government Efficiency of federal staffers working from home rather than coming into the office, with Elon arguing that it would be a far better deal for the taxpayer if they worked from the office instead.
Watters, opening the bubble bath part of the Thursday conversation by noting how little government employees come into the office, said, “A new Senate report says only 6% of federal workers go into the office five days a week, and if you don’t count security guards and maintenance staff, only 1% of government workers do 9-5, Monday through Friday.”
Continuing, Watters commented on the bubble bath issue. He said, noting that the federal office buildings lie empty and a manager was working from his bathtub, “Almost 90% of government office buildings are completely empty, so where is everyone? One manager at Veterans Affairs took a picture of himself working from a bubble bath.”
Then, slamming how absurd it is that the manager was gloating about being in a bubble bath in the first place, Watters said, “He called it ‘my office for the next hour.’ What kind of man takes a bubble bath? Men age out of bubble baths at five. If you’re a guy and you’re alone in a bubble bath, that’s a problem. You have to have someone with you.”
Introducing Stephen Miller, Watters then said, “Stephen Miller, should grown men be taking bubble baths?” Slamming the situation as absurd, Miller, who has been appointed Homeland Security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff for policy by President-elect Trump, noted how ridiculous it is and what it shows about the mindset of those involved,
He said, commenting on the absurdity of grown men gloating about bubble baths, “Grown men should not be taking bubble baths. They certainly should not be doing their work from home in a bubble bath. It’s so emblematic of the contempt that so many people in the swamp have for the people who pay their salaries.”
Miller took the opportunity to vow that the Trump Administration would start trimming this waste with a vengeance, saying, “When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and that new golden age of America begins, he’s gonna tell the federal workers of this country who your viewers pay for to get back into the office and do their jobs or find another line of work.”
Still not done, Miller noted how expensive the waste is for taxpayers, saying, “We are not paying billions and billions of dollars for people to sit at home all day as federal workers streaming their favorite shows on Netflix, lounging around in bubble baths and doing God knows what else, but definitely not working for the American people.”
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