Biden administration bizarrely spins empty office epidemic as a way to SAVE ... trends now
The Biden administration is being ridiculed for hypocrisy as it touts 'energy savings' at federal buildings that are nearly empty of workers - and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars.
Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm recently celebrated the Biden administration's efforts to reach net-zero emissions from federal buildings by establishing a rule outlawing the use of fossil fuels on-site.
'The Biden-Harris Administration is practicing what we preach,' Granholm said in a statement about the rule. 'Just as we are helping households and businesses across the nation save money by saving energy, we are doing the same in our own federal buildings.'
But Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is calling out Granholm for not sharing the whole truth.
She says that federal buildings are still hemorrhaging energy and cash as many government employees continue working from home while the lights remain on.
Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Gary Peters, D-Mich., introduced a telework transparency bill in April to better track federal remote worker data in and to better inform decisions on how they spend taxpayer dollars
Department of Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm is implementing a new rule outlawing federal buildings from having on-site fossil fuel burning energy sources, saying the Biden administration is 'practicing what we preach'
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, however, has said that the move is hypocritical because the buildings are mostly empty of workers and the ploy is a way to spend more money on green initiatives
'If the administration is serious about practicing what it preaches on energy conservation, instead of spending more money, you could instead stop paying to heat, cool, light, and operate the ghost town of vacant buildings all around Washington, D.C.,' Ernst wrote in a Monday letter to Granholm exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.
Ernst argued in her letter that the new rule would cost taxpayers money to refit federal buildings reliant on fossil-fuel energy sources while hardly any government employees actually work from those
