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Bombshell report reveals all Biden federal offices are less than 50% occupied - and HUD is only at 7% - after abuse of telework policies results in BILLIONS of taxpayer dollar waste
Daily Mail ^ | 12/06/23 | Kelly Laco

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: accountability; buildings; bureaucracy; ernst; federal; federalbuildings; federaloffice; fjb; gao; government; gsa; hud; joniernst; office; offices; taxpayer; telework; waste
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But it is unclear how many total federal employees continue to telework - a statistic that Republicans have demanded to no avail.

The government can't find out where the government workers work.

1 posted on 12/07/2023 1:30:26 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

This provides a GOLDEN opportunity for President Trump to fire most of the employees of these federal agencies.

NO SHOW....NO JOB !!!


2 posted on 12/07/2023 1:35:20 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: Libloather

Money for nothing, and your chicks for free...


3 posted on 12/07/2023 1:49:03 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Libloather

Do not give them any ideas.
They may hire bunch of bench warmers, just to fill the space!


4 posted on 12/07/2023 2:13:30 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: Libloather

Better to pay them not to work; they would only be scheming to curtail our freedoms anyway.


5 posted on 12/07/2023 2:16:44 AM PST by Kenny500c ( )
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To: Libloather

time for anothet Gimgrich tealty closeout!


6 posted on 12/07/2023 2:20:19 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Libloather
The government can't find out where the government workers work.

Then shut it down. They'll find out real quick after that.

And, apparently we won't notice it on the roads, either.

-PJ

7 posted on 12/07/2023 2:21:49 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Libloather

How is CIA and NSA not the highest percentage in-office? Everything they do is classified and you can’t take it home or do remote work or meetings from home.


8 posted on 12/07/2023 2:24:59 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Kenny500c
Better to pay them not to work; they would only be scheming to curtail our freedoms anyway.

Yep, I would say 99% of those still working, should be fired, and we would probably all be better off.

9 posted on 12/07/2023 2:30:07 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Libloather
Back in the old, old days, one Sarbanes Oxley test was to hand out paychecks one payroll day each year - just to see if a real person showed up to get their paycheck, and could provide proof that they were the person listed on the paycheck.

Mail-in ballots, mail-in payroll.

10 posted on 12/07/2023 2:40:15 AM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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To: All

Someone is driving into DC every day because the roads are packed. Same with the trains.


11 posted on 12/07/2023 2:42:01 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Libloather

HUD is very discriminatory in its hiring practices. Triple-digit IQs need not apply.


12 posted on 12/07/2023 3:00:43 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Libloather
On a related note, from 2022 and the UK...

Stop working from home, Jacob Rees-Mogg to tell Civil Service Ministers ordered to get staff back into offices, with workers who refuse to do so accused of failing to pull their weight

SSDDS.

Same ****, different Deep State.

13 posted on 12/07/2023 3:16:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Libloather

The government is not visiting their decision until 2025. They’re targeting federal employees for their votes.


14 posted on 12/07/2023 3:19:47 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Libloather

Many of them don’t work when they’re in the office. Trust me.


15 posted on 12/07/2023 3:20:10 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Libloather

Pygmy cannibals prefer to perform voodoo magic in their mud huts instead of HUD offices.

It’s part of the flesh eating culture that is governing America. /spit


16 posted on 12/07/2023 3:37:39 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Gnome1949

better yet
close the departments and agencies permanently


17 posted on 12/07/2023 3:48:49 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: Libloather

Proving once again the government is bloated to ineffectiveness and now its costing everyone


18 posted on 12/07/2023 3:54:51 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: ComputerGuy

Two HUD trivia facts:

The building seen from the air looks like the letter H.

When Andrew Cuomo was Secretary his nickname was “the undertaker” due to alleged mob ties and a nasty loud and hostile personality.


19 posted on 12/07/2023 3:58:08 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Libloather

Still getting paid for staying home and doing nothing. Fire everyone on the spot that is not at work in their office.


20 posted on 12/07/2023 4:02:33 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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