Feds' $4.6B furniture splurge is one more outrageous abuse of taxpayer funds

Feds' $4.6B furniture splurge is one more outrageous abuse of taxpayer funds - Post Editorial Board

One thing Americans can be sure of: 

• At any given time, somewhere out there, a government decision-maker is finding new and inventive ways of flushing your hard-earned cash.

The latest: Government watchdog OpenTheBooks found that the feds spent an eye-popping $4.6 billion on new furniture and decorations for government buildings since October 2020, even though only half the federal workforce was consistently showing up for work in person as of last year.
In 2023, the Government Accountability Office found that 17 of 24 federal agencies used 25% or less of their headquarters’ buildings.
So the feds blew billions in taxpayer cash on art that almost no one will look at and furniture that almost no one will use.
It’s always easy to spend other people’s money.
Some of the worst splurges:

• $250,000 worth of Herman Miller chairs for the US Agency for International Development offices in Mozambique.$237,960 for 30 solar-powered picnic tables for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• $1.4 million on art and drawings for embassies.
• $39,000 for new conference tables for The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
• $117,250 on 40 Ethan Allen recliners for the US embassy in Pakistan — or about $2,931 each. (And we doubt they got a volume discount.)...