Obscene Waste: Federal Agencies Spent $4.6 Billion On Furniture For Empty Buildings

And federal workers won’t return to the office (!)

OpenTheBooks had issued a report in October 2023 giving a first look at many of the other spending items, including:

$14.4 million for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to get new furniture, averaging $14,400 per employee, with 1,000 working for the agency $6.5 million for the Environmental Protection Agency to buy trendy furniture, while it downsized to move into a 300,000-square-foot office space at Four Penn Central in Philadelphia $284,000 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for conference rooms $237,960 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to purchase roughly 30 solar-powered picnic tables $213,828 at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for conference rooms Roughly $182,000 on plexiglass panels at the IRS offices, a COVID

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