<p>The federal government has reportedly shelled out $4.6 billion for new furniture since 2020 — during a time when only about half of all federal employees were even showing up to work in person.</p>
<p>The Republicans on the House Oversight Committee shared a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/feds-forked-over-4-6b-for-new-furniture-since-2020-despite-just-half-of-employees-showing-up-for-work-watchdog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the New York Post detailing the recent testimony of OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨Feds forked over $4.6B for new furniture since 2020 — despite just half of employees showing up for work: watchdog<a href="https://t.co/3Zk7ZqKkf5">https://t.co/3Zk7ZqKkf5</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1909957793286594803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Hart shared the findings reported through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, saying, &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And of course, workplaces need desks, chairs and meeting tables, and it’s true that beautiful spaces can make us more productive, but beauty at what cost and on whose dime?&#8221; Hart said, arguing that at the reported costs, the government had been effectively &#8220;decorating and redecorating the administrative state.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hart also noted in his opening statement that the State Department had forked more than &#8220;$1.4 million on art and drawings to fill the walls of its embassies worldwide — including $200,000 for just two paintings by the modern abstract painter Alfred Jensen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our embassy in Islamabad is a place where you can put your feet up thanks to 40 Ethan Allen chairs, which cost taxpayers $120,000,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>As the New York Post detailed, among the extravagant expenditures was &#8220;$4 million for furniture and cubicles in US Agency for International Development (USAID) offices in Ukraine, West Africa and Mozambique — the last of which filled spaces with $250,000 worth of Herman Miller chairs.&#8221;</p>
<p>All of these expenditures came during a period of time when, according to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-target-federal-unions-after-11th-hour-deals-tie-trumps-hands-on-remote-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Management and Budget</a> (OMB), more than half of all government employees were choosing to work remotely, either part-time or full-time, rather than physically reporting to work.</p>
<p>In addition, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2023 that out of 24 agencies, 17 had reported gross underuse — less than 25% — of their facilities.</p>

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