Government loves to waste your money. This is not news to anyone, but the depths to which they'll sink as they spend our tax dollars is something else.
So, finally, someone has decided to do something about it.
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania proposed the USE IT Act to force the government to actually use the office space we're paying billions for.
Government watchdog @USGAO reported that 17 of the 24 federal agencies it reviewed used 25% OR LESS of their headquarters office space.
— RepScottPerry (@RepScottPerry) March 12, 2024
Today, we'll vote on my bill, the USE IT Act, which will force agencies to use their offices at a 60% capacity rate or sell the buildings.
Why the USE IT Act? Well:
"According to a @USGAO memo from December, not a single federal agency has over half of its workforce in the office."https://t.co/CCP5LX8ELX
— RepScottPerry (@RepScottPerry) March 12, 2024
For every single American who has to go to the office -- or those of us who worked in, say, healthcare and never got to 'work from home' -- this is a slap in the face.
The vote was yesterday.
It passed the House 217-203.
Federal agencies will be forced to use buildings at a 60% capacity rate or else SELL off 11,000 acres of unused space as Republicans claw back Biden's remote 'bloated' bureaucracy wasting $2 billion taxpayer dollars per year https://t.co/ltDdThKkEa pic.twitter.com/pBrCdMTrFy
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 12, 2024
The bill led by Rep. Scott Perry, which passed Tuesday evening 217-203, requires federal agencies to use their offices at a 60 percent capacity rate or sell the buildings.
Damning reports reveal government employees have been in meetings while taking bubble baths, still got paid while on the golf course and attended happy hours while on the clock.
All federal agencies are less than 50 percent occupied - wasting an estimated $2.8 million per day.
Republicans say its an insult to taxpayers as agencies spend about $2 billion a year to operate and maintain over 11,000 acres of federal office buildings and over $5 billion annually in leases.
'Right now, American Taxpayers are forced to pay $2 billion a year for office space - almost half the size of Disney World - that D.C. bureaucrats refuse to use,' Perry wrote on X.
Wasting $2.8 million a day. That's $1.22 billion annually.
But tell us more about how we can't cut anything from government.
They don't work when they are in the office, I can only imagine the carnival taking place right now.
— Kavu Stock (@kavustock) March 13, 2024
Absolute circus. And we're paying for it.
So much for it being about keeping people safe COVID. It’s as if that was used as an excuse or something.
— Thomas Matthew 🇺🇸 (@latayprime) March 12, 2024
We're entering year FIVE of 'two weeks to flatten the curve.'
Okay, so let's eliminate those expensive workspaces.
— Boss_Level_Troll (R) (@BossLevelTroll) March 12, 2024
Yep. Immediately.
So much government waste. Seems like it’s endless. 🤦🏼♀️ https://t.co/rqEjTvg3AJ
— Felicia Przybocki (@FeliciaP1204) March 12, 2024
It is endless.
This bill is, ultimately, a drop in the bucket. The debt goes up by a trillion dollars every 90-100 days. But start somewhere. Here is as good a place as any.
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