Posted on 12/07/2023 1:30:26 AM PST by Libloather
resident Biden is facing criticism after a bombshell report revealed that all federal agencies are less than 50 percent occupied - wasting billions in taxpayer dollars - over a year after he declared the COVID-19 pandemic over.
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) memo to Sen. Joni Ernst, obtained by DailyMail.com, not a single federal agency has over half of its workforce in the office.
That's a staggering statistic since federal agencies spend about $2 billion taxpayer dollars per year to operate and maintain federal office buildings - and over $5 billion annually in leases.
The shocking findings comes after Biden formally ended the COVID-19 emergency back in May and his chief of staff urged the return of the federal bureaucracy to in-person work by the fall. He also famously declared the pandemic 'over' in September 2022, surprising members of his own team.
The data shows an 'estimated three-month average space utilization' statistics that were collected for 24 agencies during one-week periods in January, February and March 2023.
The agency with the greatest percentage of in-office staff for the three months was the State Department at 49 percent. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) took home the prize for the least space utilization (7 percent).
The Social Security Administration tied HUD at 7 percent utilization, followed by the the Small Business Administration at 9 percent. The General Services Administration (GSA) tied the Department of Agriculture at a measly 11 percent.
'The Department of Housing and Urban Development's abandoned building is a sad symbol of the failure of the Biden administration,' Ernst told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement.
'Under Bidenflation, buying and renting is a whole lot more expensive, and instead of getting the homeless off the streets, no one is even home at HUD,' she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
More like “Money for nothing and their “checks” for free”.
heh
So why build the feebs a new 700 million dollar building when they can simply use all this empty office space?
The USA is better off paying government workers to do nothing.
The more they “work”, the more damage they cause.
No. This works in Trumps favor. He correctly tried to disperse these federal agencies out of Washington DC and faced incredible opposition. Now that all the staff is working remotely, he can have them hire individuals working in the heartland and actually supporting We The People instead of supporting politicians in D.C.
You know how they are always complaining about being underpaid given how expensive that area is. Well, the answer is this, tell them they are being helped out, their job is now in say Des Moines if they are at Agricultures or Butte if they are with Interior. Education to Chicago area. Energy to Midland Tx. ATF to Gaza.
Another Biden atrocity exposed.........just part of the
flesh-eating Democrat culture that is governing America.
Knowing Biden as we so well do, I suspect the Feds are paying the homebound employees to outfit a room in their home for an office.
Great post
Cover story for all the federal bureaucrats who died or are incapacitated after taking the kung flu shots. Of all the groups who believed the government propaganda that the kung flu shots worked, federal bureaucrats were in the front of the line.
The govt sector of DC is mostly abandoned buildings. No workers walking around. A few tourists wandering here and there. Very light traffic.
They need more tourists to help with the care and feeding of local muggers.
;-)
How is CIA and NSA not the highest percentage in-office?
They need to be out spying. That is what they are being paid for,
If you ask about why taxpayers have to carry this burden one of the 14 people working at the FBI will start an investigation...
Are you in the area?
What’s it like around the Humphrey building (HHS)? I worked there for a year in the early 1990s
So they just surf porn from home now instead of the office.
uh.... they aren’t working. I mean they didn’t when they were actually IN offices.
Excellent time to decentralize the Federal Government. Shift all of the agencies to various locations around the country. For instance, Energy to Houston, TX; Agriculture to Kansas City, MO..etc.
At least half of federal employees do nothing. And I mean no duties. People are hired into slots with no work to do so that they can invent more manager positions and more promotions. A friend of mine was actually hired at Tooele Depot and told up front it was just to have enough people to justify creating a promotion for one of the good old boys.
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