By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-06 17:30:12 | Updated at 2024-12-22 21:11:14
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Trump aide Stephen Miller has a message to male federal employees working from their bathtubs: Don't.
Miller appeared Thursday night on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime.
He was named by President-elect Donald Trump the incoming Homeland Security adviser and White House deputy chief of staff for policy.
Watters opened up his show by going on a diatribe about a Veterans Affairs worker who in March 2023 posted a story to Instagram that showed him in a bathtub and labeled it 'My office for the next hr.'
The Fox News host proclaimed that 'men age out of bubble baths at five. If you're a guy and you're along in a bubble bath, that's a problem.'
Watters then asked Miller for his take on bubble bath-gate.
'Grown men should not be taking bubble baths,' Miller replied. 'They certainly should not be doing their work from home in a bubble bath.'
'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 incoming Trump White House official Stephen Miller (right) said that federal workers, especially male federal workers, should not be working from their bubble baths
A Department of Veterans Affairs employee based in Atlanta posted a series of Instagram stories in March 2023 from the bathtub with the caption: 'My office for the next hour.' Both Watters and Miller said grown men shouldn't be taking bubble baths
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and through President Joe Biden's tenure, the federal workforce had a more permissive telework policy.
That's something that the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency plans to reverse.
A new report from Iowa Repubilcan Sen. Joni Ernst's office found that only 6 percent of the federal workforce work from the office full-time.
Others do a mix of teleworking and in-office work.
Ernst has been tasked with setting up a DOGE caucus in the Senate, while top Trump ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will fulfill that duty on the House side come January.
'When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and that new golden age of America begins, he's gonna tell the federal workers of this country, who your viewers pay for, to get back into the office and do their jobs or find another line of work,' Miller said.
'We are not paying billions and billions of dollars for people to sit at home all day as federal workers, streaming their favorite shows on Netflix, lounging around in bubble baths and doing God knows what else, but definitely not working for the American people,' the immigration hardliner added.
Musk - toting around his son X - and Ramaswamy made their Capitol Hill debut Thursday.
The duo met with lawmakers to get a plan in place heading into the next administration.
Last week Ernst laid out 22 ways that DOGE can be successful in trimming down the federal government.
A source told DailyMail.com that Ernst and Ramaswamy met last week to discuss her ideas to slash $1 trillion immediately.
She was also at Mar-a-Lago last Saturday meeting with Trump, Musk and Treasury pick Howard Lutnick, DailyMail.com was first to report.
