Republican demands Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco building be SHUT DOWN after it turned into an open-air drug market ravaged with crime
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is calling for the closure of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s federal building in San Francisco after a series of violent crimes, drug deals and overdoses occurred on the site.
It has become so dangerous that the Health and Human Services (HHS) building dedicated to the prominent Democratic lawmaker has been forced to tell employees to stop coming to work due to concerns about violent crime.
There have been more than 150 overdoses — including 33 deaths — in the first six months of 2023 on the same block as Pelosi’s building. In addition, workers were reportedly chased by homeless people holding knives and hammers and a protective fence was placed around the property.
Ernst told DailyMail.com that working in an HHS building “should not be a risk to your health or life,” but unfortunately “it is now thanks to former Speaker Pelosi and the other liberal politicians who allowed criminal mayhem to take over the floods the streets. of San Francisco.”
She went on to say it’s “ironic” that Pelosi’s federal building is a shining “symbol of the way government doesn’t work.”
People gather outside the Federal Building in San Francisco
A homeless encampment can be seen in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, California
San Francisco federal employees are advised to work from home due to safety concerns
Ernst referred to the abundance of government offices and workplaces that have remained “largely empty” due to the “misguided policies” of the Biden administration and other Democratic-led cities.
She questioned why taxpayers are footing the bill to keep the lights on in Pelosi’s “haunted house” while residents are forced to leave the property.
Her complaints were outlined in a letter to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the building.
The Biden administration has admitted there have been several “challenges” as sweeping federal work-from-home orders waste billions of taxpayer dollars due to unused office space.
Congress has stepped up scrutiny of government agencies and their telework policies as we mark the months since President Biden formally ended the COVID-19 emergency.
Ernst and other lawmakers say billions in taxpayer money have been wasted on unused federal office space.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), more than 75 percent of available office space across 17 different federal agencies remains vacant.
Agencies spend approximately $2 billion per year operating and maintaining federal office buildings and more than $5 billion per year on leases.
Ernst has demanded investigations into 24 of the largest federal agencies regarding their “misuse” of remote work.
San Francisco’s ongoing battle against homelessness and drug use is in broad daylight
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and other lawmakers say billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted based on unused federal office space
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker from Atlanta posted a series of Instagram stories from March from the bathtub with the caption: “My office for the next hour.”
Workers have benefited from the Biden administration’s liberal work-from-home policies in several ways.
Damning reports reveal that government employees have attended meetings while taking a hot tub, still got paid on the golf course, and attended happy hours while on the job.
This happened as the passport backlog continued and veterans waited months for appointments with their doctors.
Most recently, employees who work for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) struck a deal with the agency to keep their high salaries even as they work remotely and move to cheaper cities and states.