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What If Federal Workers Never Showed Up for Work and No One Missed Them?

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What If Federal Workers Never Showed Up for Work and No One Missed Them?
A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home, in a file photo. Joe Giddens/PA
Stephen Moore
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This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing.
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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