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  • Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’

    03/20/2025 5:51:24 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 39 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | 19 Mar 2025 | Luke Rosiak
    One of the seven small federal agencies that President Donald Trump ordered downsized or eliminated on Friday was rife with corruption, with its employees hiring friends and relatives, commissioning paintings of themselves, and using government credit cards to indulge in constant luxuries. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a...
  • Bush Offers Democrats Conciliatory Words

    02/03/2007 9:10:58 AM PST · by Sub-Driver · 37 replies · 873+ views
    Bush Offers Democrats Conciliatory Words Feb 03 11:40 AM US/Eastern By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) -- President Bush squarely addressed the issue most on the mind of House Democrats, saying Saturday that deep divisions over the Iraq war need not bring anyone's patriotism into question. "You know, I welcome debate in a time of war and I hope you know that," Bush said in opening remarks at the guest speaker at a retreat that drew about 200 lawmakers to a Virginia resort. He said disagreeing with him over the war _ as many in the room...