Federal officials blasted for spending $3.3 BILLION on office furniture while employees worked from HOME - including $250K on solar-powered picnic tables for the CDC and $120K on luxurious leather recliners for just one US embassy

DAILY MAIL ^ | 4 October 2023 | WILL POTTER

[ConservativeInPA]

See, there are no opportunities to cut federal spending. These are necessary expenses. Federal employees cannot have substandard working conditions. After all, they do so much to America. We need an omnibus spending bill and just be done with all this divisive infighting in Congress.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Solar Powered picnic/work stations over $3,000 each….

[cgbg]

“guy back in the 1970s who was selling a Solar Powered Clothes Dryer, people sent him $10 and he sent them a roll of clothesline and some clothes pins.”

He could have sold these for ten grand each to dozens of federal agencies—if he bribed the right people first.

;-)

[thinden]

nothing but the best.

remember the old gummit budget dilemma:

if we don’t spend everything in the budget before the end of the year, we won’t get as much in next year’s budget.

[Vaduz]

Egregious spending when nobody is looking yep it’s the gubment.

[fireman15]

The ones you found look nicer and have bigger solar panels. Here are actual picnic tables purchased by the CDC for $237,960:

But don't worry they will pay for themselves with saved electricity if they are used continuously and they last for several hundred years.

[Amish with an attitude]

Not a problem; just print more money and let future generations pay the bill.