President-elect Trump on Monday indicated that he plans to reject President Biden's move to reach an agreement that would allow tens of thousands of federal workers to remain in hybrid work arrangements with telework through 2029.

"We're talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition as they like to say, it's a friendly transition, and it is," Trump said at a news conference. "But there were two events that happened that I thought were really horrible."

"One is that if people don't go back to work, go back to the office, they're going to be laid off, and somebody in the Biden administration gives a five-year waiver. So that for five years, people don't have to go back to the office," Trump said. "It involved 49,000 people over five years. They don't have to go. They just signed this thing. It's ridiculous. So it's like a gift to the union, and we're obviously going to be in court to stop it."

Trump's comments came after an agreement was reached earlier this month between the largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and Social Security Administration (SSA) which "puts the current level of telework into our National Agreement until October 25, 2029."

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President-elect Trump has said his incoming administration will seek to block a five-year remote work agreement between SSA and AFGE. (Jim Watson/AFP via / Getty Images)

The agreement, the first reported by Bloombergcovering approximately 42,000 Social Security workers nationwide. Under the agreement, requirements for employees range from being in the office from two to five days a week, the outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

AFGE National President Everett Kelley responded to Trump's comments about the remote work agreement in a statement that the union supports telecommuting "where it delivers for both taxpayers and the workers who serve them. Telework and remote work is a tool that has helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency, maintain operational continuity, and improve disaster preparedness."

"The rumors about widespread federal telework and remote work are untrue. More than half of federal employees cannot work at all due to the nature of their jobs, only 10% of federal employees are in remote locations, and those with hybrid arrangements spend more than 60 % of time working in the office," Kelley said.

"Collective bargaining agreements made by the federal government are binding and enforceable under the law. We believe the incoming administration will abide by their obligation to respect the law. union contract. If they fail to do so, we will be ready to enforce our rights," Kelley added.

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President-elect Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, and they have taken a critical view of the federal telecommuting policy. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump has assigned Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy by heading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will focus on finding ways to reduce government spending and improve the efficiency of federal initiatives.

Musk and Ramaswamy have stated that they want to end remote work and see the need for federal workers to return to the office as a way to encourage voluntary layoffs.

"Requiring federal workers to come to the office five days a week will result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal workers don't want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn't be paying them for the COVID-era privilege of staying at home," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote. in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal last month

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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, head of the Senate DOGE caucus, said after the deal between AFGE and SSA was announced that it was "unacceptable" and that she would work with Musk, Ramaswamy and DOGE to "fix this ASAP and get the bureaucrats back to work."

Breck Dumas and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten of FOX Business contributed to this report.