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

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


Perhaps you should sit down for this.

A new report found federal agencies spent $4.63 billion on furniture in the Covid years to furnish the mostly empty offices of overpriced federal government buildings. 

The new expenditure check by government tracker Open the Books (OTB) shows a host of absolutely insane purchases on the taxpayer’s dime — from $182,000 on plexiglass panels for IRS offices as part of a scientifically stupid Covid mitigation plan, to $237,000 for solar-powered picnic tables with charging stations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remember, the CDC was the same government agency whose absurd social-distancing guidance urged Americans to stay at least six feet apart at all times. Gee, Yogi, it’s hard to social distance around a picnic

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