OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart: Federal Agencies Spent More than $4.6 Billion on Furniture Since 2021
‘That amount could buy 9.2 million American families a modest $500 kitchen table’
Apr 9, 2025 1:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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HART: “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. During the peak years of the Covid emergency, from 2020 to 2022, agencies spent $3.3 billion on furniture, even as work migrated to Zoom. The SEC managed to spend $700,000 furnishing a single conference room in New York. And social distancing guidelines failed to keep even the Centers for Disease Control from buying solar-powered picnic tables with charging ports that, by their own rules, should have sat unoccupied.”
