A plan by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce the US federal workforce through a new task force has met with resistance from Washington, DC, business and government leaders who worry it would gut the local economy. 

But there’s one prong of the Department of Government Efficiency proposal that local leaders are greeting enthusiastically: a return-to-office policy. 

Some two dozen elected local officials in the DC metropolitan region, including mayors and county executives in Virginia and Maryland, have pushed the federal government to order staffers to return to the office — echoing downtown business leaders around the region.

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