The federal government dropped $3.3 billion on new office furniture as the vast majority of its employees worked from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, a watchdog report exclusively obtained by Th…
Ex-Trump accountant who testified that ex-prez lost $1B in 2 years back on the stand in NYC fraud trialKevin McCarthy confident there won’t be a government shutdown in November after stopgap funding billIf a shutdown happens it will be a pox on both houses and partiesBetween 2020 and 2022, federal agencies spent more than $1 billion per year on the plush decor — a rate consistent with pre-pandemic levels despite departments filling just a quarter of their available office space on average.
“In the case of office furniture, most federal headquarters are barely a quarter full on a given workday, and no major agency is at more than half capacity. Yet for some reason we’ve bankrolled another billion dollars in desks, chairs, couches and more — while employees clock in from their own living rooms.”In one particularly “egregious example,” the group said the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation spent nearly $15 million on new furniture — or $14,400 for each of its 1,000 employees.
“VA’s 465,000 public servants are currently delivering more care and more benefits to more Veterans than ever before in our nation’s history, and we regularly purchase furniture and office supplies to support them,” the spokesman went on. “We are returning to in-person work because it is critical to the well-being of our teams and will enable us to deliver better results for the American people,” Zients wrote in an email to agency heads.
“You got bad information,” Haley shot back at Scott. “On the curtains — do your homework, Tim, because Obama bought those. … They were there before I even showed up at the residence.”
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