President Trump on Monday attempted to justify the buyout for federal workers as a push for productivity, suggesting those who work from home aren't actually working.
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00:00I got elected on making government better, more efficient, and smaller.
00:05And that's what we're doing.
00:06And I think it was a very generous buyout, actually.
00:09Also, if people don't show up to work, we have a right to fire them.
00:12This is free will.
00:13This is a buyout where people, you know, they were offered a good deal.
00:18Many people have taken that, as you know.
00:20But, you know, many of those people, and we talk about reporting to work.
00:25I happen to be a believer that you have to go to work.
00:27I don't think you can work from a home.
00:29I don't know.
00:30It's like there's a whole big, oh, you can work from home.
00:32Nobody's going to work from home.
00:33They're going to be going out.
00:35They're going to play tennis.
00:36They're going to play golf.
00:37They're going to do a lot of things.
00:38They're not working.
00:39It's a rare person that's going to work.
00:40You might work 10% of the time, maybe 20%.
00:43I don't think you're going to work a lot more than that.