Our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report — Use-It-Or-Lose-It Spending Spree, How Federal Agencies Spent $91 Billion In September 2019.

Posted By on August 20th, 2020

Our 40-page report details how tens of billions of taxpayer dollars went out the door in the last 30-days of the 2019 fiscal year.
Inside our oversight report, you’ll find:

  • $457 million spent on furniture (even though, today, 75-percent of the federal workforce is telecommuting and not in the office)
  • $456 million spent on public relations (PR), despite the 5,000 PR officers employed within government agencies
  • $50 million on seafood, like $40 million on catfish and mahi mahi and $4.6 million on lobster and crab
  • $3.7 million on games, toys, and musical instruments including pianos, flutes, and French horns

You’ll also find spending on guns and ammunition at the following agencies: Education, Veterans Affairs, and Human & Human Services.

OpenTheBooks auditors even found $100,000 spent on desserts, like donuts ($43,000), cake mix ($36,000) and pecan pie ($10,000).

All of the details can be found in our report here.

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