The hearing Thursday probed the Department of Interior over its lingering telework flexibilities despite recent return-to-office orders.
Bowser’s administration is calling district employees back to offices after urging federal agencies to do the same.
The news comes after a Pittsburgh company abandoned its own attempt to land its spacecraft on the moon because of a mission-ending fuel leak.
The payload includes NASA experiments, toy-sized cars that will cruise around the lunar surface and the ashes of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry.
The United States has not attempted a moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
And of those who could, 87% of federal employees participated in telework in FY22.
Many large departments have issued similar orders in recent months to call broad swaths of their workforces back to offices.
More than half of Metro station serve federal facilities, and about a third of peak commuters were federal employees pre-pandemic.
While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
"I’m calling on Biden’s bureaucrats to deck the agency halls with federal workers or sell off unused space," she said.
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