Two Republican senators expanded their investigation into the effects of telework on government agencies in a Wednesday letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, seeking information about offices outside Washington, D.C., after learning one agency spends $224 million a year on one department’s nearly-empty headquarters in the D.C. area.
Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Ted Cruz of Texas spurred an investigation into remote work practices by the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in July after questioning the office about allegations from whistleblowers from multiple agencies involving failures to meet in-office work requirements, fraud and waste.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Ernst and Cruz asked the GAO to investigate the usage of hundreds of buildings owned or rented by the Department of Transportation, citing the massive cost for just the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
