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The government has wasted $10 billion maintaining, leasing, and furnishing empty buildings, according to Sen. Rand Paul’s annual Festivus waste report.
“No matter how much money the government has wasted, politicians keep demanding even more,” he wrote. “The federal government spent $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing almost entirely empty buildings,” it reads, pointing out that “most federal offices are ghost towns, with 17 out of 24 agencies using only 25% or less of their space in 2023.”
The GAO calculated building capacity based on usable square feet per employee. It found that many of these buildings are just oversized, expensive storage units for empty desks. In addition to the whopping $2 billion annual maintenance cost, the federal government is spending $5 billion on leases.
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