In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

The two entrepreneurs, tasked by President-elect Donald Trump last week to lead the newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), suggested in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that

Elon Musk has proposed a bold new concept that will result in firing of federal employees in the US who fail to come to office for five days a week for work.

Follow updates on Trump’s cabinet and staff picks. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of what President-elect Donald J. Trump has called the Department of Government Efficiency, said on Wednesday that they supported requiring federal employees to work from the office five days a week as part of a broad overhaul of the civil service.