Trump aide Stephen Miller has a message for male federal employees who work from their bathtubs: Don’t do that.
Miller appeared on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime on Thursday evening.
He was appointed by newly elected President Donald Trump as incoming homeland security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff for policy.
Watters opened his show with a rant about a Veterans Affairs worker who posted an Instagram story in March 2023 of himself sitting in a bathtub and labeled it “My office for the next hour.”
The Fox News host proclaimed that “men come out of hot tubs at the age of five. If you’re a man and you’re in a hot tub, that’s a problem.”
Watters then asked Miller for his opinion on hot tub port.
“Adult men shouldn’t take hot tubs,” Miller replied. ‘They certainly shouldn’t do their work from home in a hot tub.’
“It’s so emblematic of the contempt that so many people in the swamp have for the people who pay their salaries,” the Trump White House official continued.
Both Fox News’ Jesse Watters (left) and new White House official Stephen Miller (right) said federal employees, especially male federal employees, should not be working from their hot tubs
A Department of Veterans Affairs employee from Atlanta posted a series of Instagram stories from the bathtub in March 2023 with the caption: “My office for the next hour.” Both Watters and Miller said adult men should not take hot tubs
During the COVID-19 pandemic and during President Joe Biden’s term, the federal workforce adopted more tolerant telework policies.
That’s something the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency plans to reverse.
A new report from the office of Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa shows that only 6 percent of the federal workforce works full-time from the office.
Others do a mix of teleworking and office work.
Ernst has been tasked with setting up a DOGE caucus in the Senate, while top Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will handle that job on the House side in January.
“When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20 and that new golden age of America begins, he will tell this country’s federal workers, who your viewers pay for, to go back to the office and do their jobs or some other have to look for work. ‘, said Molenaar.
“We don’t pay billions and billions of dollars for people to sit at home all day as federal workers, stream their favorite shows on Netflix, hang out in hot tubs and do God knows what else, but certainly not working for the American people. the immigration hardliner added.
Musk – toting his son X – and Ramaswamy made their Capitol Hill debut on Thursday.
The duo met with lawmakers to draw up a plan for the next administration.
Last week, Ernst laid out 22 ways DOGE can be successful in shrinking the federal government.
A source told DailyMail.com that Ernst and Ramaswamy met last week to discuss her ideas for immediate savings of $1 trillion.
She also attended a meeting at Mar-a-Lago last Saturday with Trump, Musk and Treasury pick Howard Lutnick, DailyMail.com first reported.