Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The bill requires heads of executive agencies to relocate at least 30% of headquarters employees to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area within one year, adjust their pay to the new locality, and end full-time telework for those moved. OMB must direct agencies to reduce headquarters real property by 30 percent and prioritize disposing of buildings and co-locating agencies.
Progressives emphasize worker pay cuts and collective-bargaining supersession
Simple-majority chamber could pass but faces unified opposition from federal employee stakeholders, legal concerns, and partisan framing.
The bill requires heads of executive agencies to relocate at least 30% of headquarters employees to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area within one year, adjust their pay to the new locality, and end full-time telework for those moved.
OMB must direct agencies to reduce headquarters real property by 30 percent and prioritize disposing of buildings and co-locating agencies.
Agencies must report counts and plans to Congress; the law bars relocation incentives, supersedes other laws and collective bargaining, and includes limited ADA and national-security exceptions.
Broad, contentious mandate altering pay, telework, and bargaining rights with legal and implementation hurdles; may pass one chamber but unlikely to clear both.
How solid the drafting looks.
Progressives emphasize worker pay cuts and collective-bargaining supersession
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Progressives emphasize worker pay cuts and collective-bargaining supersession
Likely opposed overall.
Supports decentralization in principle but objects to forced pay-locality cuts, telework bans, and the supersession of collective bargaining.
Concerned about worker protections, retention, and insufficient disability safeguards.
Mixed view.
Sees potential efficiency and regional-service gains but worries about rapid timelines, mission continuity, and workforce impacts.
Would seek phased implementation, cost-benefit analysis, and protections for mission-critical functions.
Generally supportive.
Views decentralization, reduced DC headquarters footprint, and co-location as efficient and pro-taxpayer.
Appreciates limits on full-time telework and removal of relocation incentives.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Broad, contentious mandate altering pay, telework, and bargaining rights with legal and implementation hurdles; may pass one chamber but unlikely to clear both.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize worker pay cuts and collective-bargaining supersession
Broad, contentious mandate altering pay, telework, and bargaining rights with legal and implementation hurdles; may pass one chamber but un…
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