Donald Trump was ready for a fight after Joe Biden made this terrible backroom deal

The clock is ticking on Joe Biden’s time in the White House. 

He’s trying to take care of as many of his political allies as possible. 

And Donald Trump was ready for a fight after Joe Biden made this terrible backroom deal.

Unionized Social Security workers get a deal to keep remote work 

President-elect Donald Trump is hard at work on the transition to his second term in the Oval Office. 

Trump called out President Joe Biden during a press conference for a terrible deal to undermine him during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. 

“We’re talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition as they like to say, this is a friendly transition, and it is,” Trump said. “But there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible.”

The Social Security Administration (SSA) cut a deal with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing unionized workers to extend remote work privileges until 2029.

“One is that if people don’t come back to work, come back into the office, they’re going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that. So that for five years, people don’t have to come back into the office,” Trump said. “It involved 49,000 people for five years. They don’t have to go. They just signed this thing. It’s ridiculous. So it was like a gift to a union, and we’re going to obviously be in court to stop it.”

Former SSA commissioner Martin O’Malley signed off on the deal in November before he quit to run for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). 

The deal would keep the majority of Social Security workers from having to return to the office for work until Trump left the White House in 2029. 

Biden tries to stop Elon Musk’s effort to make federal government more efficient 

Trump named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut spending and improve government efficiency. 

One of the top targets for DOGE is ending the widespread practice of remote work for federal employees. 

“Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home,” Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in the Wall Street Journal. 

The union contract that Social Security workers that Biden extended was an attempt to protect them from returning to the office. 

AFGE National President Everett Kelley bragged that the deal was a win for Social Security employees and taxpayers. 

Kelly threatened Trump and DOGE about any action to change the remote work privileges in the union’s contract. 

“Collective bargaining agreements entered into by the federal government are binding and enforceable under the law,” Kelly warned. “We trust the incoming administration will abide by their obligations to honor lawful union contracts. If they fail to do so, we will be prepared to enforce our rights.”

Federal employees are trying to protect their cushy remote work gigs while they still can with Biden. 

They’re going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to working at a desk.