“We have office space, it’s occupied by 4%. Nobody’s showing up to work because they were told not to.”
What FactCheck.org found
More than half of the nearly 2.3 million federal workers are not even eligible to work from home at all, according to an Office of Management and Budget report released in August 2024. As of May of that year, among those eligible to telework for a portion of their hours, 61% of their working hours were spent in-person at assigned job sites. Only 228,000 — about 10% of the federal workforce — were entirely remote.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 11 February 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 February 2025, 6 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerated”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-executive-orders-whit…
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