Trump pushes to reopen country, but his own workforce isn't rushing back

President Donald Trump wants America to go back to work, but his administration is struggling to bring back many of its own employees.

With Covid-19 infections still rising in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and other major cities with large government operations, it could be months before federal workers are back in the office at normal, pre-coronavirus levels.

The Trump administration last month laid out guidelines for reopening government offices and bringing operations back to normal,looking to gradually reduce the number of employees who are teleworking across the country. But the memo from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management did not set any time lines or mandates, leaving significantdiscretion to the individual agencies. Democratic lawmakers, labor leaders and more than a half-dozen federal employees POLITICO spoke to complained there has been little transparency or clear guidance from the agencies about the way forward.