“Most federal headquarters are barely a quarter full on a given workday, and no major agency is at more than half capacity,” OpenTheBooks CEO and founder Adam Andrezwjewski said.
“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”
Included in the Biden team’s spending bonanza:
• $15 million on new furniture, equivalent to $14,400 for each of its 1,000 employees, for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
• $237,960 on solar-powered picnic tables for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offices.
• $250,000 on high-end Herman Miller furniture for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
• $6.5 million for new décor for the Environmental Protection Agency, despite the agency moving to a far smaller 300,000 square foot office space in Pennsylvania.
• $120,000 for upmarket leather reclining armchairs from Ethan Allen for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan.
“As Congress continues to fight over spending, we want to make it clear that there are massive amounts of money being appropriated, spent, wasted and sometimes hidden from the taxpayer,” Andrzejewski said.