Have a Seat on These Pricey New Chairs and We'll Discuss the Latest Example of Wasteful Gov't Spending

Doug P. | 12:06 PM on April 09, 2025

This week brought with it yet another example of wasteful federal government spending being exposed.

Being able to just print money and add to the national debt means never having to worry about where you're going to find the money to keep buying things that as it turns out the government didn't even need:

🚨Feds forked over $4.6B for new furniture since 2020 — despite just half of employees showing up for work: watchdoghttps://t.co/3Zk7ZqKkf5
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) April 9, 2025

via @DOGECommittee: "Since fiscal year 2021, executive agencies have spent more than $4.6 billion on furniture alone. That amount could buy 9.2 million American families a modest $500 kitchen table."
-@johnhart333, Open the Books CEO

cc: @MatthewTyrmand @DOGE @elonmusk… pic.twitter.com/cjzgoeU2rQ
— Open the Books (@open_the_books) April 8, 2025

🚨 WTF? The federal government spent over $4.6 BILLION on new office furniture in the past four years ALONE

Yet practically NOBODY actually comes into the offices to use it.

FRAUD. The American people need to start seeing ARRESTS! pic.twitter.com/kdA6mSQrkb
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 8, 2025

Hey, it's only taxpayer money! This is the kind of thing the Democrats are fighting to allow the government to keep doing.

The government spent nearly FIVE BILLION on unused furniture. 😑😑😑

The days of waste, fraud and abuse can’t end soon enough! https://t.co/EdwWQAWPpa
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) April 9, 2025

We'd say this is unbelievable but unfortunately it's all too believable:

The federal government has forked over $4.6 billion for new furniture since October 2020, a taxpayer watchdog group’s president told a House panel Tuesday, despite just around half of all agency employees showing up for work as of last year.
OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart shared the “high cost” for every agency sprucing up during the bulk of the COVID-19 pandemic and former President Joe Biden’s term during a House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing.
“That amount can buy 9.2 million American families a modest $500 kitchen table,” Hart said of the billions of dollars splurged on the “federal real estate portfolio” that was effectively “decorating and redecorating the administrative state.”