Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst and Florida Republican Sen. Scott Franklin introduced the law Friday, requiring the Department of Personnel Management (OPM) to track the time and money spent on union activities by federal officials.
OPM previously agreed to resume tracking “Taxpayer-Funded Union Time” (TFUT) in a February 27 memo provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, but Ernst’s law, a taxpayer-funded union time transparency law, requires agents to report on TFUs each year. Ernst told the DCNF he wanted to know how much it costs taxpayers. (Related: Exclusive: Trump Administrator agrees to return taxpayer-funded union work to the microscope after GOP Senator’s request)
“Bureaucrats have forgotten to serve Americans, not themselves,” Ernst said. “Taxpayers deserve to know how much of their hard-earned money is making bills for the insane practices of taxpayer-funded union time. Once I understand how much these unions owe, I’ll come to collect all the pennies.”
Houston, we have a problem, bureaucrats are tearing taxpayers apart in astronomical quantities.
If federal employees want to break in from their jobs, they will need to refund the Americans for every last penny. 🛸🚀 https://t.co/d3nacyfrmz
– Joni Ernst (@senjoniernst) February 26, 2025
Ernst It was introduced The Union Time Transparency Act, funded by taxpayers in 2024, after government employee unions resisted efforts to return to the office. She also introduced the Protected Taxpayer Wallet Act in February, requiring the union to reimburse the government for bureaucrats spent on union activities and government resources used in union activities.
Ernst request The agency provided information on TFUT in December. Ernst’s office received information from the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRC) regarding TFUT for 2023 and 2024.
Data from the NRC shows that a project manager, who earns $171,469 a year, spent more than 99% of his time working in union work in 2023, and a project manager, who earns $166,393 a year, spent more than 99% of his time working in union work in 2024. Their time for union activities.
Ernst’s office also received data from NASA, indicating that TFUT would cost $477,204 in 2023 and $417,798 in 2024. A similar breakdown was not provided to Ernst’s office on Friday morning.
Ernst also discovered abuse related to “official time” with one employee Move In Florida, he works in real estate during the arrangement, but another employee claimed he was in “official hours.” Incarceration For drinking and driving. (Related: Exclusive: GOP Senators reintroduce bills to launch one agency bureaucrat outside the beltway)
Federal employees spent 2.6 million hours on union activities, worth 2.6 million hours, the third century, costing at least $135 million taxpayers in 2019. According to To Ernst, who quoted OPM data. The union also used at least $24 million in office space and taxpayer-payer-paying supplies.
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