A taxpayer-funded sob story about federal workers being cruelly required to return to work at (gasp!) the office every single day aired earlier this week on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show, headlined “Trump wants federal workers back the office, meaning longer days and added expenses.” But the single example offered wasn’t exactly the stuff of a nightmare commute.
Host A Martinez introduced the brief story.
A Martinez: Federal agencies have submitted plans for their workers to return to the office full time for the first time since the pandemic, as directed by President Trump. That means thousands of government workers will likely descend on Washington each day. Scott Maucione from member station WYPR reports from Baltimore.
Maryland public radio reporter Maucione presumably went out looking for sympathetic stories, but the thin gruel of…
