0 i believe in second chances when sincere apologies are made, but it's you, the audience. you decide if an apology is sincere. nobody forces you to watch or listen to any show. we owe our careers to you. i can't thank you enough to give me this opportunity every day. thanks for watching every night. you decide. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham takes it from him. >> laura: hannity, we have a lot going on the vaccine mandates and so forth. we'll pick it up where you left off. thank you, my friend. i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. breaking another day, another major court loss on the issue of vax mandates. hours ago, a federal district judge in louisiana halted a biden order that certain healthcare workers nationwide be vaccinated, this followed two other similar rulings by judges in missouri and kentucky the past 48 hours. the supreme court will have the final say here. we have ken starr on this later in the hour. also fauci outs himself again as the omicron panic pusher goes nuts. we have our medicine cabinet on that. the congress woman that liberals love to hate, lauren bogart is here for the message of those trying to cancer her. first, the swamp stays home. that's the focus of tonight's angle. so if you live and work in a red state, you know, normal america, you may not realize that many federal employees haven't returned to work full time since the pandemic began. so federal buildings and those that house homeland security, hhs, transportation department have had a lot of vacant offices. the lights are on and literally almost no one is home. now, this is a complete travesty. especially in midst an inflationary spinal, a supply chain crisis and a new covid variant that they're supposedly worried about. in the twisted liberal in mind, in-person work is scheduled for those that work in stores, baristas, janitors, airport personnel. the average federal worker apparently believes staying home is their right. now, way back in june in a story that got little play, we learned that the biden folks want to make this situation with at-homework permanent. the biden administration laid out a permanent work from home expansion that is likely to be cheered by my federal employees, 59% of whom were teleworking at the peak of remote work during the pandemic. now, this should be shocking to exactly no one. federal workers are biden's electoral bread and budder. in 2020 aown, nearly 96% of donations from the american federation of government employees at the federal union and its members went to democrat. only 4% went to republicans. so in terms of actual dollars, the afge and its members donated 24 times more to democrats than to the gop. in other words, whatever federal workers want, they'll eventually get as long as a democrat is in the white house. in an opm survey from 2020 that was published earlier this year, federal workers gave the stay-at-home flexibility high marks. managers concluded that productivity did not suffer. okay. my question is, who is managing the managers? who is supervising them? this is like surveying high school students about whether they want to get more vacation days or not. duh. of course they want them. but don't worry. there's a lot of neeto tips about how to use the government website called telework.gov. we're supposedly comforted by the fact that teleworkers and nonteleworkers are to be treated the same for promotions, job reviews and work requirements. oh, that's a relief. let's move along then. not quiet. no one believes that managers are as effective at monitoring the activities of employeeses that are not on site. even if we take it true that federal employees are just as efficient at home as in the office, why are we paying them d.c. area wages? that's what the biden team wants to do. opm's guidance tells agencies, teleworking employees that are still expected to commute twice a pay period should be granted locality pay based on where their traditional work site is located. so if you travel twice in two weeks, you get big city play? that's a nice kickback. of course, the ugly truth is that this is all part of a larger biden administration plan to reset america. the telework website notes that we need to leverage the lessons learned from our work during the pandemic and reimagine how we work. oh, how nice. so in the old normal, remember that old normal? you actually got dressed, traveled to work and collaborated in person with colleagues. but their new normal is you say you're working but you're really in cancun sipping margaritas on zoom with your video screen off. build back better? sounds like build back lazier to me. but to the extent that biden is aware of any of this and he's probably not, he doesn't care if civil servants at the energy department show up or not as long as they vote for him. >> you're patriots. you could have done a lot of things with your careers but you chose public service. i commend you for your honor, integrity. i have the utmost trust in your capabilities. >> a few weeks ago, biden released a memo that gives leeway to agency heads to expand the number of federal employees eligible for permanent remote work by calling it something else, of course. the document urges agencies to codify remote work as an alternative work arrangement. although opm stressed it should be considered on a case by case basis. why this obsession with telework? climate change fanatics love things like this like they love the lockdowns. fewer people on theed roads. they justify work from home to promote the diversity, race and gender goals, if you can believe it. what a complete scam this is. so how many of these teleworkers are actually essential workers? here's my rule of thumb. if they haven't been in to the office for two years and have no plans to make it back in, how essential can they really be? it's so out of control that the biden white house doesn't even know how many of them are still working from home. >> looking at that set of the federal work force that was forced to suddenly telework, do you have any sense of what percentage of that group has come back to the office? >> i can't tell you the precise percentage of where we are. we're working with agencies on the reentry process. part of that is making sure that people are vaccinated. >> laura: the reentry process is ordering stuff on amazon prime. that's the reentry process. this is embarrassing. given the number of court decisions going against those vaccine mandates he just referenced, i wouldn't count on any of that, sweetie. the irony here with covid's covid gravy train and fear mongering, many of the private sector companies are still struggling to get workers back in the office. wall street is in revolt. parents remain worried about transmitting the coronavirus to their children. suburban dwellers are chasing at the thoughts of long commutes. many people prefer remotely. serves the banks right for backing biden. total idiots. welcome to the new normal. where lazy meets entitled. there's certain narrow categories of work. i know what you're saying. certain narrow categories of work have been were fine to be remotely. we know that. this was neverment to go to the federal government where the benefits are cushy and the job protection is guaranteed. america developed the world's most powerful economy by out innovating and outworking everyone else. we cannot phone it in and expect to preserve our standard of living. republicans in congress must demand real answers about what our bloated federal work force is up to other than orders for on doordash. that's the angle. joining me now, jim banks. from telework to proxy voting, this has to end at the federal level. you guys can stay at home and vote in your pajamas according to nancy pelosi. your response to this. >> laura, it's infuriating. right now we have a backlog of 182,000 claims at the v.a. for our veterans that are calling my office every day, frustrated with the bureaucracy. that backlog, by the way is caused bay the v.a. employees are working from home. social security offices all over the country that are closed. you have to do everything by mail because workers are working from home. you have a 12 to 18-week backlog for visa applications at the state department because of this mess. you can go on and on. i have constituents calling my office and say they still have not received their 2020 tax return from the irs because of this issue. at the end of the day, it's a matter of fairness. my brother works in the same factory my dad worked at. he goes to work every day and makes axles. he does pay taxes and his tax dollars are going to pay for federal government employees that are making twice as much money, get twice as many vacation days. it's not public service if you're better off than everyone else around you. it's a scam. >> laura: they have to come back to work, they're nonessential hand should be phased out. don't you agree? if you can't drag yourself in the workplace but expect the amazon delivery guy to come to you every day, how is this fair to the american tax payer? >> it's not fair at all. to your point, laura, the example is being set by democrats in congress that just released the new congressional schedule for 2022 today earlier today. we will be in session fewer days next year than what we were in session this year. the least amount of days that members of congress will actually go to work in modern history. yet every member of congress will still get a paycheck for $174,000 a year, can vote by proxy. they never have to come to washington d.c. this is the democrat example that they set for the american people and they're playing it out with federal employees as well. >> laura: i think congressman, most people in real america, they don't know this is happening. you drive by hhs or the transportation, these huge office buildings in d.c., i'd say about a third of the lights are on or a third of the offices seem like they're occupied, which lends -- leads to the next question. how many of these employees did why ever need in a federal government and why are they still working? they're not really working. that's the answer. >> it proves that point. proves it very, very well. when we get the majority back in the next election, hold us accountable for this. we have to dig in to this to look at how many federal government employees do we really need. actually study each department, department by department and determine how many of these employees can be cut. the hard working american people that do have to go to a job every day, that actually do something, they actually work and create something, they're the ones that are footing the bill for those that have a job or stay at home and still get paid $100,000 or more. at the department of education, federal department of education, on average they make $100,000 a year. teachers make half of that on average around the country. these federal employees that work at the department of education, they don't teach kids how to read or write and making twice as much as teachers and now they stay home to do whatever job it is that they do from home. >> laura: i used to work at the department of education and transportation. i wondered what half the people were doing. congressman, we'll hold your feet to the fire when you take back majority. thank you. while democrats labor to keep workers couch surfing, they empower irs agents to monitor your bank accounts. >> can you tell the american people today, secretary yellen, whether you still support any form of the irs bank reporting requirements for the purpose of targeting essentially every single working american at minimum wage or higher? do you still support that or not? >> i do support it. i think it's important that the irs have visibility in to opaque income streams. >> laura: now what aunt bee means by visibility is letting irs agents look at your bank accounts of $10,000 or more. it is a lot of money until you realize that is only $833 a month. here with me now, j.d. vance, ohio senate candidate. j.d., they want their mitts and their eyes on everything that the average american is doing. that is clear by this move. she's not even trying to hide it. >> yeah, that's right. think about this. they say it's about monitoring billionaires. why do you need 87,000 people to monitor billionaires. you need 87,000 people to monitor the daily financial activities of normal middle class americans. if we learned anything the past ten months in the biden administration is that they're totally willing to use the federal government as a weapon against normal americans. think about the nonviolent protesters that are still in preson thanks to corrupt prosecutors at the federal level. why would we give the federal government more power to monitor, to control, to harass normal americans? that's what this is about. anybody that is being honest with the american people would admit that. >> laura: now, this is a massive issue of privacy, surveillance, a massing government power and authority over regular class americans. it's not targeting rich people. what do you think the real goal is, j.d., behind this? the real goal. >> well, it's important to remember once you to you they are power on, you can't turn it off. the real goal is to create a massive enforcement bureaucracy that can go after americans. if you give the irs this new enforcement power with all the agents to back it up, you can have them harassing people that are going about their normal lives. transacting in normal business. maybe you buy a firearm and the irs comes after you. maybe you support a political candidate that the irs doesn't like. we know from the obama administration that the irs was actively targeting conservatives and talking about blowing up that entire program on a massive scale and never turning the clock back on that power. it's a really dangerous precedent to set. >> laura: then they know what you're spending your money on presumably as well. we do they have any right to any of this? where are the real liberals jumping up and down on this? great to see you, j.d. as i mentioned just hours ago, a federal judge issued a halt to the biden administration's vaccine mandate. we'll get into more of that with ken starr coming up. but we have a lot more tonight and that is regarding, well, breaking news. looks like chris cuomo will have more time on his hands for that weight room. cnn sidelined him temporarily and it's not for his abysmal ratings. turns out the allegations is that he was coaching his big bro, disgraced former new york governor, andrew cuomo, during his sexual harassment scandals and it's alleged that cuomo help dig up dirt on his brother's accusers. well, whatever the truth is here and we'll find out after years of throwing stones at donald trump and other innocent people questioning their morality, cuomo has seen his own glass house shatter. we're still hoping for selfishly for the quo bro show reunion perhaps on qvc. up next, dr. fauci is still claiming ignorance on the natural immunity to covid. and with a winter covid surge seemingly in the works, red staves waver or stay the course of freedom over safety. mississippi governor reeves has a message next.